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To: Thatcherite
Well, Jesus certainly wasn't telling the truth, unless God hid or otherwise falsifed the physical evidence that the flood ever happened. So I suggest that you pick whichever of the other options you feel most comfortable with.

Another alternative to Jesus not telling the truth, or God hiding or otherwise falsifying the physical evidence is that you simply interpret all physical evidence through the assumption that Earth's physical characteristics are the result of slow processes and vast time periods.

Cordially,

1,215 posted on 03/02/2006 12:02:18 PM PST by Diamond
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To: Diamond
Another alternative to Jesus not telling the truth, or God hiding or otherwise falsifying the physical evidence is that you simply interpret all physical evidence through the assumption that Earth's physical characteristics are the result of slow processes and vast time periods.

Sorry, your criticisms of the way science operates are about 250-300 years out of date. Science doesn't work just by using a set of assumptions to try and interpret the data any more and hasn't for a couple of centuries. Interpretation of pre-existing observations using defined assumptions is just the starting point of framing hypotheses. There is a long road between those assumptions and observations and what scientists refer to as "theory", and in it the assumptions are thoroughly tested against reality, by predicting what we would expect to see if the assumptions and the interpretation were true. Creationists consistently ignore or are unaware of how science actually works, and constantly harp on this "interpretation" canard.

I am slightly surprised at you hawking the interpretation canard. From arguments I've seen from you in the past I'd have expected better than that. Surely you knew this already?

1,440 posted on 03/03/2006 9:54:44 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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