deadperson21

Here's the one building I'd like to see more than anything on here... The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., the mother church of the United States of America, and the largest church by volume in North America.

St. Peter's Basilica / The Vatican

Why won't Fidel Castro die? He's been there forever. He's like a dinosaur or something.

I would just like to make a few points clear that I believe are missing from this discussion. We should also consider the billions of "random" mutation that have create the species Homo sapiens. The sheer odds of this happening could possibly point to an outside entity that drives evolution in some sense. Most leading scientists, including Darwin and Einstein, believe(d) that a higher power is the most reasonable underlying explanation for most biological, chemical, and physical phenomena. We can attempt to describe the manner in which things occur, but in the grand scheme of things, if you really think about it, it doesn't make sense without God. For those that try to use the Bible to disprove evolution or prove creationism: The official stance of the Roman Catholic Church, according to the Vatican, is that Genesis and the rest of the Old Testament were written after centruies of oral tradition. The Book of Genesis is meant to be interpreted metaphorically. The Church does not believe that God created the world in six days. Those six days are part of a metaphor that is used to suggest that God created the Earth. We will never know exactly how the world was created. In Genesis there are two creation stories. The second comes much later in the book. Which one are we to go by? The Roman Catholic Church supports the Theory of Evolution. The theories surrounding the formation of life and earth show events occuring in a manner similar to which the Bible has them in. Nowhere in the Bible does it explicity say how God created the world and life. It simply says that he did it. Catholics believe that Evolution is simply the means by which God created the human race. We do not believe in a purely Creationist ideology and there is no evidence to support such though. In my opinion, there is not legitimate debate on whether Evolution is valid or not. The true debate is whether there is a higher being or not, and that is a personal decision you must make.

I would like to see some of the follwing buildings: Washington National Cathedral US Supreme Court Building Pentagon The US National Archives The US Capitol (complete, not just the middle part that is the SC4 landmark) Library of Congress: Thomas Jefferson Building Smithsonian Castle WWII Memorial UN Complex (NYC) St. Patrick's Cathedral (NYC) Texas State Capitol San Jacinto Monument St. Peter's Basilica