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To: xzins; CarolinaGuitarman
I have already demonstrated that evolution relegates the Christian creation story to "myth."

Yes, and? I hope you understand that science is under no obligation to not contradict your religion. If your religion makes falsifiable claims about reality and science demonstrates that they are wrong, that's a clear sign that a literal reading of the passages in question doesn't take you anywhere.

It allows for no alternative explanations.

Science allows for scientific explanations i.e. naturalistic answers. That's not because a supernaturalistic answer is necessarily false but because supernaturalistic explanations cannot be empirically tested. If they could, they would be called natural in the first place.
Besides, trying to explain an observed phenomenon with a supernaturalistic answer is like replacing a riddle with an even greater enigma.

Evolution is a theory that is necessarily IN ITS IMPLICATIONS, atheistic.

No, it's not. Just because it's incompatible with a literal reading of your creation story doesn't make it atheistic. For instance, the ToE is not concerned with the way how the first imperfect self-replicators arose because it only addresses the dynamics of a system and not its origin.
So while your god may have created the first life form I wouldn't be too comfortable with this gap because science doesn't stand still and maybe in a not too distant future we may discover possible pathways of how life could have arisen in a natural fashion.
Now while such a discovery doesn't prove that your god must not have created life it demonstrates that he need not have done so.
However, this is the nature of all of science and that not only since Laplace, who IIRC was the first one who expressed that idea explicitly.

As a side note, the ToE is not the only scientific theory that contradicts your creation story. Long before Darwin, early geologists (who btw. were all creationists) came to the conclusion that their observations didn't match a recent global flood, no matter how much they wished this wasn't the case. So, they were biased, but their bias went into the other direction which makes their conclusions even more compelling.

1,764 posted on 02/17/2006 7:28:56 AM PST by BMCDA (If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,we would be so simple that we couldn't)
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To: BMCDA

Thank you for your comments.

Are you a "theist" who also believes in evolution?

If so, would you describe that particular God?


1,772 posted on 02/17/2006 7:39:14 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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