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To: Texas Songwriter; St_Thomas_Aquinas
Texas Songwriter: "The atheist/Darwinist/ materialist/metaphysical naturalist (use the term you wish) believe by faith that our minds arose from mindless matter without intelligence intervening."

I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't some deliberate misrepresentation on your part?
Any "Darwinist" is a scientist, and any scientist may or may not be a "metaphysical naturalist" = atheist.
Thus many scientists are not atheists.
Here, yet again, is my listing of famous Christian scientists, through the ages.

So "Darwinism" does not require atheism, only the acknowledgement that God does indeed work in mysterious ways (see Romans 11:33).
The confirmed scientific evolution hypothesis (descent with modifications, natural selection) seems to fit well the observed evidence.

Texas Songwriter: "So, if the Darwinist/materialist/naturalist/physicalist who declare everything in this universe is extended into space, then that personneeds to account for the immaterial and invarient abstract entities from a physical perspective or abandon their worldview."

If you are hoping to sell the case against atheism on Free Republic, there's no need.
Virtually everyone posting here already agrees with that, 100%.
But many (I think, really, most) do not agree that "Darwinism" necessarily equates to atheism.

That's a case you've never made, and I think, cannot make here.

124 posted on 09/23/2013 6:48:11 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't some deliberate misrepresentation on your part?

Your wonderings are false.

My previous post will suffice to address your last post.

Somehow I feel you will visit cyberspace and direct your thoughts to me. But, at some point both you and I will have to agree to disagree. Good luck to you and yours.

127 posted on 09/23/2013 8:10:52 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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