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To: jennyp
I believe evolution is the nescessary basis for atheism. -templar-

I don't think this is ignorantly equating electricity and atheism. I believe electricity is the nescessary basis for atheism.

Very cute, but of course evading the point completely. The question you need to answer is how can an atheist believe there is no God if God created life and all the species on earth. Evolution is totally necessary for atheism and that is why it was an atheist, Darwin, that made it up.

379 posted on 08/28/2002 7:09:37 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Evolution is totally necessary for atheism

Your assertion is false. There are atheist creationists (usually weird liberal nutters though -- I've known some of these), and there are also atheists who subscribe to other scientific theories of speciation besides evolution. I'd say you missed a spot with that brush you are painting with. Try again.

387 posted on 08/28/2002 7:32:51 PM PDT by tortoise
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To: gore3000
Very cute, but of course evading the point completely. The question you need to answer is how can an atheist believe there is no God if God created life and all the species on earth. Evolution is totally necessary for atheism and that is why it was an atheist, Darwin, that made it up.

If God created life and all the species on earth, then either He left tracks or He didn't. He didn't.

And of course, Darwin was no atheist, although he moved closer to atheism as he got older. But first & foremost, Darwin was a scientist.

Did you know I became an atheist at age 13, not because of anything whatever to do with evolution? It just struck me that it's, ummm, intellectually indefensible to believe in a supernatural person who nobody sees and who is only able to communicate with those people who already fervently believe in him - and then only telepathically, so that there never is any intersubjectively verifiable evidence that he was really there. If I did believe in God, I'd still believe in evolution because I'm not going to disbelieve my lyin' eyes.

428 posted on 08/28/2002 8:39:55 PM PDT by jennyp
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