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To: narby

" Perhaps your goal is to destroy science as it exists and replace it with your own version of "truth"?"

Please. 'Science' is not some delicate porcelin vase, nutured and protected on some seismically-rated shelf somewhere. Science can't be 'destroyed'. Gee whiz....

Since you ask, I will tell what my goal is - to be in some measure pleasing to God through the way I live my life. It is the way I live, if I do it with the proper attitude, which will reveal what 'truth' is ... and 'science' will be no worse nor no better because of it.

What I can't see is the threat you seem to perceive from folks like myself. Just what exactly do you think we want?


120 posted on 09/20/2005 6:31:20 PM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
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To: gobucks
What I can't see is the threat you seem to perceive from folks like myself.

Well, I don't know your posts on this subject well enough to have an impression on you. But for IDers in general, as in the IDers in Kansas who are trying to change the science curriculum standards, I think the threat is to create a bias in science that whenever an explanation isn't obvious in the data, to explain the phenomena by saying "God did it".

The problem with that is that there are now no questions to solve via science. We know everything. We know some natural explanations, and everything else God did. With no questions left to solve, science is dead.

I think this also results in, in my opinion, a warped view of God. It divides up the world into the things that are "natural", and the things done by God. I thought God works through all things? I thought everything that occurs is a result of Gods will? Therefore when we discover something in science, we're viewing Gods work.

I think that faithful people, when they see the evidence of common ancestry between primates and humans in the Vitamin C DNA gene, and the thousands of shared ERV virus insertions that prove we share specific common ancestor individuals with primates, should revel in Gods handiwork. If this means they have to look at a gorilla in the zoo and say "hi cousin", well, then get over it. God did that, even if the gorilla is an ugly cousin. That's what the evidence found in Gods creation tells us.

Evidence found in Gods creation is equally as valid as anything He said in the Bible. Perhaps more so. The creation is the evidence handed directly from Gods hand, with no human intervention. The creation is written in Gods language, not mans.

There are many Christians, who accept evolution, who are inspired by what they read of Gods work found in science. And there are some that are not inspired, and that's a shame.

126 posted on 09/21/2005 2:16:38 AM PDT by narby
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