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To: Dataman
That means evolutionists won't object when it is posited that God created the universe and God caused life from non-life. You can't object because you just said your theory has nothing to do with those two miracles.

The theory does have nothing to do with universe origins or life from non-life. The only valid objection that I can see is trying to pass off the "God did it" explanation as science, since it is not scientific to assert as much (as it invokes explanations that fall outside of the scope of science). I do not, however, see such an assertion as incompatable with or contradictory to the theory of evolution.

"That evolution is an attempt to remove God from every aspect of human life is a creationist strawman"

That happens to be your straw man argument since I have never seen a creationist put it forth.

Funny, I seem to get that impression from a number of Creationist posters, though some more explicitly than others. Gore3000, for example, seems stronly convinced that it is the case that evolution is just an attempt to justify atheistic materialism.
1,027 posted on 05/09/2003 11:50:46 PM PDT by Dimensio (Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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To: Dimensio
Gore3000, for example, seems stronly convinced that it is the case that evolution is just an attempt to justify atheistic materialism.

And if you want to debate the point I will be glad to do so. We can start off with Marx who wished to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin because of how greatly he considered it helping his theory. We can continue with Eldredge who said that evolution made atheism respectable. We can continue with the long line of atheists who have been the main promoters of evolution: Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Gould, Eldredge, and Dawkins. If that is not enough we can just look at the avowed and obvious atheism of most of the evolutioninsts on these threads.

1,264 posted on 05/12/2003 5:58:02 PM PDT by gore3000
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