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To: Antoninus

> unlike certain fundamentalist atheists who take things, like the inevitability that functional RNA will be creatable in a lab ex nihilo, purely on faith.

The belief that science will continue to progress as it has these last few hundred years is not exactly an unfounded "faith," and nor is it restricted to "fundamentalist atheists."


176 posted on 12/22/2005 10:06:14 AM PST by orionblamblam (A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
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To: orionblamblam
The belief that science will continue to progress as it has these last few hundred years is not exactly an unfounded "faith," and nor is it restricted to "fundamentalist atheists."

We were not talking about science in general. We were talking about one specific advancement. I applaud your "faith" in science to solve that particular problem.
183 posted on 12/22/2005 10:10:03 AM PST by Antoninus (Hillary smiles every time a Freeper trashes Rick Santorum)
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