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To: donh

I think I am starting to see how this breaks down:

If there is a force that intervened or set something in motion at some point in the past, whether five minutes ago or 13 billion years ago, and that force is only now identifiable by the fingerprint that it left, and that force is non-sentient, then it is within the purview of what you call science.

BUT

If the fingerprint of that force reveals any signs of sentience, then you insist that all inquiry is ouside the purview of what you call science.

Is that about right? Regardless of the evidence, all notions of intelligent intervention must be discounted because, well simply because you say so?


437 posted on 08/22/2005 5:33:50 PM PDT by LeftCoastNeoCon (Spell-check free and proud of it.)
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To: LeftCoastNeoCon
I think I am starting to see how this breaks down:

All paranoid delusions feature such moments of clarity.

Is that about right? Regardless of the evidence, all notions of intelligent intervention must be discounted because, well simply because you say so?

If you had the sort of overwhelming positive forensic evidence of God's creative handiwork, that could be verified by cynical, disbelieving, scientifically trained observers through experimentation or further field research, your Nobel prize would be in the bag. You don't get this prize, however, for running around shouting "science doesn't know everything--nya, nya, nya"--popular as that approach seems to be at the moment. I'm sorry science's disinterest in your problem is distressng for you, but science does not throw away it's current major paradigms every time a student lab goes astray.

There is no world-wide scientific conspiracy to hide the really, really good, compelling evidence for God's existence from prying eyes. Honest, I know it might seem like hundreds of thousands of evil, malign scientists are plotting to hide the truth from you, but that's not the actual case, that is what we call a paranoid delusion in medical clinics. If the evidence were there, some scientist somewhere would have defied Darwn Central, and glommed onto it in an instant, and published, and thereafter written his own plush academic career ticket, and received his Nobel and his chair at Oxford.

456 posted on 08/23/2005 4:20:33 AM PDT by donh
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