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To: highball
Evolution doesn't require "just as much faith". It has evidence to support it. So much evidence, for that matter, that the proponents of ID accept evolution as fact (they only want to add a supernatural element on the beginning of it).

You selectively read, or missed my meaning. I am saying I pretty much believe in evolution theory. I am just saying that science runs for the hills when questioned on how did it all start. The dances are incredible.

You are mincing words between belief/conclude/evidence, etc. Yes, words mean things. I have a B.A. in communication. The communicative theory of reality really piqued my interest during my studiess. The evidence you treat as a sacrement is interpreted and processed differently by every single human being that receives the communication transmitting said evidence. That makes it real in varying degrees and never understood in the same way. It is just a construct.

That we don't have more acknowledgement of our true limited understanding and potential to ever understand the forces around us baffles my mind. It makes science a type of religion to me. I don't think you can do anything other than theorize it's not.

172 posted on 01/03/2006 4:19:06 PM PST by 101st-Eagle
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To: 101st-Eagle
You selectively read, or missed my meaning. I am saying I pretty much believe in evolution theory. I am just saying that science runs for the hills when questioned on how did it all start. The dances are incredible.

If that was your point, then I didn't miss it at all.

The Theory of Evolution doesn't address the origins of life any more than Gravitational theory is required to explain the origins of matter.

And for the record, I don't see anybody "running for the hills" when the subject comes up, other than when somebody tries to tie it into the ToE in order to attempt to imply that the ToE is somehow deficient. Most scientists have opinions as to how life started, but no full-blown theories.

173 posted on 01/03/2006 4:22:54 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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