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To: Right Wing Professor
People who quiote dictionary definitions are usually trying to argue themselves out of a hole. We both know what it means to accept something 'as gospel'.

Ok - so you want to belabor the point. My opinion is that when corrected, some people will obfuscate and redirect - rather than accept the correction. If you don't like the term "the Gospel of evolution", don't use it - but I think it provides an apt description. To wit: I asked for a link that provides a theory on the origins of matter. It seems like a basic question - the foundation on whcih to build your evolutionary theory. However, the author of your link appears clueless:

But what about questions like "What caused the big bang?" "What happened before the universe was created?" "Are there other universes, and if so what are their properties?" "Why do the laws of physics have the structure that they have?" While some questions are ill-posed (such as what happened before time was created), others are pretty darn good questions for which there doesn't seem to be a way to obtain an answer (aside from just making one up and believing it). In any case science has progressed by assuming that more and more can be known.

You may not like it - or even want to admit it, But he's talking about faith!. Faith that science will provide an answer. There has to be a better answer than that.

Regards,

651 posted on 08/18/2004 3:38:31 PM PDT by jonno (We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)
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To: jonno
You may not like it - or even want to admit it, But he's talking about faith!. Faith that science will provide an answer. There has to be a better answer than that.

This "better" answer, which was in too big of a hurry to wait around for science, will not belong in a science class.

653 posted on 08/18/2004 3:42:31 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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