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To: samtheman; pgyanke

I noticed you sidestepped pgyanke’s question.

Fundamentalist theology didn’t exist until the late 1800s. So it’s a little ridiculous to blame it for 1000 years of Christian teaching. And second of all, your premise is completely flawed, i.e.—Christians came to accept heliocentrism, they will eventually accept evolution.

Back in the 1950s, one could have said the same thing about the Steady State theory: it was held by the majority of astronomers, rejected by Christians as contrary to Genesis. Yet I needn’t point out to you who was proved right in that particular question.


91 posted on 01/17/2008 2:44:15 PM PST by Claud
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To: Claud

Actually, Christians are already in the process of accepting evolution. There are many Christians in the biological sciences who take the common sense view that the existence of natural selection does not “disprove” the existence of god.

It’s only the hard-core atheists and the most unreasoning of religios who hold to the equation that “if there is evolution, then there is no god”.

I presume you are one of them. Atheist? Christian?

It hardly matters which if your mind is closed.


92 posted on 01/17/2008 2:47:43 PM PST by samtheman
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