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To: Agamemnon
An "I guess I'm just an idiot" placemarker (why, oh why cannot I not just ignore the apparent contradictions and believe there are none despite the evidence?).
915 posted on 05/15/2003 3:49:13 AM PDT by Junior (Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
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To: Junior
An "I guess I'm just an idiot" placemarker (why, oh why cannot I not just ignore the apparent contradictions and believe there are none despite the evidence?).

Because you are mistakenly confusing what is merely the bias inherent with your premise with what is evidence.

Call yourself an "idiot" as you will. That is your choice. I think of you more as willfully intellectually lazy, not an "idiot" per se. That said self-delusion is an idiotic basis for a position.

You continue to entertain what you term "Apparent contradictions," because for you they are self-affirming -- they don't have to be correct as observations go, but they are convenient if not essential in your mind to support your unsupportable premise.

The evidence stands: there is no contradiction. Your mistaken premise is -- and for the sake of your personal definintion must be: contradiction, at all costs and against all logic and accomplished study.

Your problem is that you have failed to prove it here, and no one with any scholarly acheivement has either -- the most anti-biblical scholars gave up such vain attempts long ago. You are the hold out not because you have seen something that has eluded even the most learned albeit skeptical critic. No, you merely insist that it be so because your ego insists it must be so and needs it to be so.

You are enamoured of your premise inspite of the evidence. Because you are so wedded to the notion, you'll do everything in your mind to dismiss evidence, because it doesn't doesn't fit your premise. This is the major failing of the evolutionist. Empirically speaking: incorrect premise - non-supportive evidence = bad "science."

You want "apparent contradictions" to be true so badly, you will ignore and must ignore all evidence to the contrary in order to salvage your precious, self-defining premise.

That, however is not science.

Good science concerns itself with evidence and adjusts it's premises accordingly.

As you insist on remaining willfully ignorant of the evidence, sadly you also continue to remain what is commonly known as "wise" in your own conceit.

1,002 posted on 05/15/2003 6:19:26 PM PDT by Agamemnon
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