****I have personal opinions about who or what that intelligence is. I do not present them as fact and demand other people acknowledge it as fact. If you can’t deal with that, then we probably shouldn’t be having this conversation.****
****I think we both agree they are wrong. We have differences of opinion in our personal theologies. You seem to be intent on “fixing” what’s wrong with my religious beliefs, and irritated because I won’t cooperate by telling you exactly what they are.****
I’m not sure why you’ve got your back up so far. The purpose of this forum (and most others) is to discuss. I don’t believe that you can find anywhere a post of mine where I have “demanded that others accept as fact” anything other than facts.
Being part of a forum involves persuasion....in order to persuade, you have to understand where the person on the other side of the conversation stands. That’s all I was trying to do.... understand where you are.
I enjoy a lively discussion on this topic, apparently you view it as an irritant. In the immortal words of Maxwell Smart: “Sorry about that, Chief”
I wish you the best.
Is it not the objective of ICR to get the literal interpretation of Genesis accepted as scientific fact, and do you not support their efforts?
If not, the I have misunderstood the situation.
Our disagreement seems to be that in the context of a discussion about a scientific theory, you can't understand "where I am" without knowing what my religous beliefs are, and I don't think that's supposed to be part of the criteria for evaluating an argument.