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To: freedumb2003
And I am very much a Christian.

Then what is your take on this:

If suffering, death and extinction are inevitable components of the evolutionary process, then it follows that the doctrine of Original Sin makes no sense. Firstly, as I’ve already noted, there is no way that humankind can be held responsible for bringing suffering and “evil” into the world. The world is not imperfect because people did something really bad and messed up what had been a perfect place and a perfect way of life. Humans evolved into a world that was already filled with suffering and other forms of imperfection, such as hurricanes, floods and Ice Ages. Secondly, death is not a punishment for sin; death has always been part of the cycle of life and evolution on earth. If humans are not responsible for suffering and evil, and death is simply a natural process rather than a punishment, then what need is there for atonement and redemption? Once I reached the right conclusion to that question, that there is no such need, I only needed a short, quick mental step to advance from discarding theistic evolution to discarding theism in its entirety.
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110 posted on 01/13/2009 8:03:27 PM PST by dan1123 (Liberals sell it as "speech which is hateful" but it's really "speech I hate".)
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To: dan1123
Then what is your take on this:

Anyone who wants to replace their logic with faith is welcome to do so. It has no effect on my faith nor my understanding of what science is and how it works.

I just ask they not sully the waters of the youth with such thinking as it muddies the waters and makes children think that they are interchangeable.

112 posted on 01/13/2009 9:13:49 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Are you rich? Tell a liberal you work for a living and he will tell you that you are!)
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