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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
You act as if all scientists believe in evolution. Nothing could be further from the case.

True. There are quite a few scientists who believe in God and that He created the world. Because they aren't sensationalist media whores, you don't hear about them. They're quietly doing their research, and figuring out the fabric of the universe and the stuff of life. I've asked scientists here on this board before if they knew people like I described. They answered in the affirmative.

The creation science demogogues aren't the best and brightest of Christian scientists, but they're the ones that people listen to. They repeat outdated, flawed arguments.

There are issues that evolution has a hard time explaining, that leads me to at least a theistic evolution or creationist viewpoint. I find it staggeringly difficult to believe that the biochemical precision that is required in the enzymes required for life could arise by pure chance. But too many of the arguments creationists use are fundamentally flawed.

Ultimately, what I believe about the origin of life and the origin of man is something I believe because of religion, not science. Science really can't answer fundamental questions of faith. It does poorly when it tries.

140 posted on 01/18/2005 11:55:17 AM PST by jude24 ("To go against conscience is neither right nor safe." - Martin Luther)
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To: jude24
Well said.

I believe part of the glory of Creation includes my expectation that human research will document evolutionary processes (scientific but well beyond our current understanding) partly because I do not believe in a petty or trickster Creator.

Creation(ism) is Faith and should be respected as such.

Scientific theories are our human attempt to understand with our limited and fallible minds the glory and magnificence of what we call God.
185 posted on 01/18/2005 12:40:59 PM PST by e p1uribus unum
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