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To: DARCPRYNCE

"It takes just as much faith to believe in one unproved theory as it does to believe in another, regardless of whether or not God is included in the equation."




I disagree with your statement. On one hand, we have a theory of evolution, with a pretty obvious set of evidentiary fossils to look at. These can be seen in any large natural history museum. One can draw one's own conclusions after viewing them. Faith is not required to believe that evolution was the process that led to speciation.

On the other hand, we have various human religions, each with its own creation story. The evidence for these is a bit more difficult to view. We have some old writings, going back to a time when the writers were living in a world with no explanations for much of anything. From these writings we are to believe that some invisible entity waved its arms and spoke the universe into existence and created all the lifeforms in that universe. Sorry, but that does require faith to believe.

So a planet teeming with fossil evidence of the theory of evolution versus a belief in an invisible supernatural entity of one sort or another which simply caused things to appear suddenly.

The two things are very, very different, indeed. Many people do have the faith required to believe in supernatural entities. Others do not and rely on physical evidence.

You cannot equate belief in supernatural entities and belief that scientific theories are correct. That's a confabulation.


87 posted on 09/26/2005 7:29:19 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan

"I disagree with your statement. On one hand, we have a theory of evolution, with a pretty obvious set of evidentiary fossils to look at."

ID does not disregard the fossil evidence. In fact, it explains it better than Evolution does.

"On the other hand, we have various human religions, each with its own creation story."

Which are no different, fundamentally, than the evolution story, which is just as unsupported by the facts.

"The two things are very, very different, indeed. Many people do have the faith required to believe in supernatural entities. Others do not and rely on physical evidence."

Yet, the physical evidence does not support the theory that life came about completely by random chance, out of lifeless chemicals, and then evolved into many different organisms.
Furthermore, just because science cannot prove the existence of a creator doesn't mean that one doesn't exist. It simply means that human beings have limited abilities to discover the nature of life.


100 posted on 09/26/2005 7:48:14 AM PDT by DARCPRYNCE
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