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To: js1138
What bothers me is the constant clanging among otherwise intelligent people to accept supernatural explanations at every difficult turn in the road.

That doesn't even bother me. It only bothers me when people try to classify the supernatural as science. I don't have any problem with creationists who are willing to admit the science isn't on their side (I've been good friends with a few who fall under this category, one of whom was a very competent physicist). I'll concede to any creationist right away that I can't prove the earth wasn't created 6000 years ago with the appearance of billions of years of age & evolution...

81 posted on 11/09/2005 7:04:47 AM PST by Quark2005 (Science aims to elucidate. Pseudoscience aims to obfuscate.)
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To: Quark2005
I can't prove the earth wasn't created 6000 years ago with the appearance of billions of years of age & evolution...

That is the nut of it. The tree created with tree rings.

Of course that's Last Thursdayism, but I have no problem with people who want to believe, provided they accept that tree rings tell us something important about how things work.

89 posted on 11/09/2005 7:23:15 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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<< I'll concede to any creationist right away that I can't prove the earth wasn't created 6000 years ago with the appearance of billions of years of age & evolution... >>


Or last Saturday, for that matter!


148 posted on 11/09/2005 9:49:48 AM PST by Ulugh Beg (Long live pastafarianism!)
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