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To: Fester Chugabrew
I bring this up only as an example to show that regardless of where we are in the way of personal experience, there may be FACTS that lay beyond our comprehension because we have not yet developed the tools to gather evidence and comprehend.

I don't know that anyone is arguing that.

MY only contention is that until we "develop the tools to gather evidence and comprehend", God's involvement in creation can't be shown, and so it can't be taught in science class...

Fester, it seems to me that you are frustrated because you can't prove you're correct when it seems so obvious to you.

It's still my opinion that God wants us to have to make the "leap of faith" - to believe in Him even though we can't quantitatively prove His existence.

But then again, I don't have any problem with science and religion being different and requiring different "skills" - just like math and English are different and require different skills and different ways of thinking.

578 posted on 03/18/2004 3:06:34 AM PST by Amelia
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To: longshadow
Why? O why? Placemarker.
579 posted on 03/18/2004 3:45:16 AM PST by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist.)
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To: Amelia
. . . math and English are different and require different skills and different ways of thinking.

They are only different in a minor way. Without language we coud not do math. Math has grammar and spelling principles just like English. So, too, religion (provided it has a foundation) and science compliment each other.

The classroom is always worthy of inquiry, IMO, regardless of what is yet proved or not. Teachers, of all, people, should have open minds.

580 posted on 03/18/2004 4:30:08 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Amelia
...it seems to me that you are frustrated because you can't prove you're correct when it seems so obvious to you.

Which is exactly the same feeelings the "E" people have, for exactly the same reason!

Why oh WHY can't these "C" folks see the TRUTH??

587 posted on 03/18/2004 5:25:16 AM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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To: Amelia; Elsie
It's still my opinion that God wants us to have to make the "leap of faith" - to believe in Him even though we can't quantitatively prove His existence.

Science wants us to make leaps of faith, too. If the validity of every hypothesis were dependent solely upon proven (or even provable!) facts, there would be no such thing as a hypothesis.

588 posted on 03/18/2004 5:57:21 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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