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To: Filo; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; GodGunsGuts; spirited irish; hosepipe
It is, but it's a different type of faith. I have faith that Mankind will find the answers. Not all of us, obviously (some are too brainwashed by silly notions) but we, as a species, will discover these answers.

So you ascribe to the supposition that "Man is the measure of all things." Okay. But what "standard" is man using in his measurements? His own convenience? His own preferences? His own desires?

Without absolutes, everything is "relative." So one man's opinion is as good as any other's. In the end, it doesn't make any difference what men believe. I say the sky is blue and you say it's red. We're both right if man is "the measure."

But if this technique makes us both right, then how can we formulate any objective statement about what and how the universe really is? How can we come to consensus on anything? What would be the basis of meaningful human communication? How far do you think science would get, if it really were to take your prescription to heart?

205 posted on 04/27/2009 11:22:25 AM PDT by betty boop (All truthful knowledge begins and ends in experience. — Albert Einstein)
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To: betty boop
So you ascribe to the supposition that "Man is the measure of all things."

Not man. Intelligence.

Another intelligent species, if we knew one, would reach the same conclusions we did about evolution because they would follow the facts.

The rest of your nonsense is just that and deserves no response.
210 posted on 04/27/2009 11:29:10 AM PDT by Filo (Darwin was right!)
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To: betty boop
Without absolutes, everything is "relative." So one man's opinion is as good as any other's. In the end, it doesn't make any difference what men believe. I say the sky is blue and you say it's red. We're both right if man is "the measure."

Indeed. Thank you so much for your wonderful insights, dearest sister in Christ!

284 posted on 04/27/2009 9:20:45 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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