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To: Behemoth the Cat

You are mixing the science those people support with their personal beliefs. I’m sure if you nailed them down on their scientific beliefs, they would be forced to admit that the theory of evolution is a product of naturalistic science, which begins with the premise that science cannot account for, postulate, or attribute phenomena to supernatural causes. Therefore saying that you believe God created evolution is essentially saying that you believe God created a process described by a theory that does not admit the possibility that God created it.


39 posted on 09/25/2009 9:38:46 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Therefore saying that you believe God created evolution is essentially saying that you believe God created a process described by a theory that does not admit the possibility that God created it.

The process is the process. Nothing in evolutionary theory speaks about who or what created the process, or if it needed to be created at all. The first life came from somewhere -- it could have formed through naturalistic mechanisms, it could have been zapped into existence ex-nihilo by a deity -- evolution doesn't try to tell us what happened.

47 posted on 09/25/2009 10:00:54 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Boogieman

Conflating the methodological naturalism of the scientific method with the philosophical naturalism of atheism is a common tactic, but it only works as long as people don’t know they aren’t the same thing.


51 posted on 09/25/2009 10:06:54 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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