Posted on 07/23/2006 8:49:26 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
If you had read the initial statement, it was making the assumption that they were Christian communities.
You can call yourself "Christian" because you have a family that may have attended a Church once, as many people do, but this does not imply those statistics are Christian.
It was his way of twisting my argument to suit his, and my fault for not making clear to someone who doesn't see the statistic from a Christian perspective.
Not if it concerns survival.
Glad you posted tha Patrick. Notice anything?
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The Churches you posted are known as heavy Liberal religious communities and denominations.
(tha) *the link*
I also notice, Patrick, that most of your references to Christians include "Liberal" Churches.
Explain.
"If you had read the initial statement, it was making the assumption that they were Christian communities. "
No it didn't.
"It was his way of twisting my argument to suit his..."
I did nothing of the sort. Stop making things up.
It was that, or simple ignorance.
There is some truth to this.
"It was that, or simple ignorance."
No it wasn't. You are making it up, because the facts went against your claim. Why must you prevaricate?
At second glance, that doesn't look pretty.
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Guitar, are you going somewhere? You've beaten irrelevance into the great blue yonder.
Your illustration is a shameless fraud. No authentic Caledonian would perch on rocks in so precarious a manner as that.
"Guitar, are you going somewhere? You've beaten irrelevance into the great blue yonder."
Says the person who has to move every goalpost in order to keep his head above water. The person who can't back up their claims. The person who must prevaricate.
How sad.
You asked for evidence to back up my claim that most evolution acceptors in the USA are Christian, and I provided it. Now you can't stand it, so you are looking for something, ANYTHING, to change the subject and evade the simple truth.
Point taken.
However you can't just make pronouncements that Evolution includes attitudes it simply does not. No matter that some atheist evolutionary scientists use evolution to pummel the religious, atheism is not part of Evolution. I am and have been a strong atheist for almost 40 years. I do not use Evolution as a cudgel to beat the religious. This is, in part, because I realize the current limitations to the SToE in addressing processes before life existed.
That some use the StoE as a weapon really says nothing about that validity of the science or its findings. It's an unfortunate reality that science has been misused for centuries for political gain. It has also been used to make life more enjoyable and meaningful.
Just to take a small side trip from the thread topic...
Sudden jumps in the diversity of life frequently correspond to extinction events and/or increased bombardment from space. Does this suggest/favour pure Earth bound evolution or potential ID influence?
If it is from an ID influence, how would we tell the difference between that influence and Evolution? If it is an ID influence how would we test the hypothesis? If we cannot tell the difference between this type of ID influence and Evolution, but we can devise tests for Evolution, which should we pursue?
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I see nothing that would make me bow down to your superior elitist self. Not a charming quality, imo.
You made a broad assumption, which I stated was in my error for not being specific.
http://objection.4camp.net/go.php?n=179112
I think most consider themselves Christian because they believe Jesus Christ died for their sins and is the route to forgiveness.
You seem to believe that Christians are defined as Christian by not believing Evolution.
You state in a post that you are an IDist. I hope you are aware that most IDists say they believe an alien race could be the designer. How does that fit in with your definition of IDist?
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