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To: PatrickHenry
This is no occasion to stick out your tongue and go: "Nyah, nyah, nyah!!"

I was not going nyah, nyah, nyah. You carried my intent too far. I was merely pointing out that other than theologians make "errors". Why should the theologian be any more embarrassed or contrite than an erroneous scientist or engineer? Consider that the theologian believes his "evidence" (not proof - as I conjecture that God cannot be proven nor disproven) as does the scientist. In any case, I will make a further audacious conjecture, in this universe we will never have all of the answers.

108 posted on 01/14/2002 1:27:15 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
I was merely pointing out that other than theologians make "errors". Why should the theologian be any more embarrassed or contrite than an erroneous scientist or engineer? Consider that the theologian believes his "evidence" (not proof - as I conjecture that God cannot be proven nor disproven) as does the scientist.

Everyone makes errors, and so your point, while true, wasn't going to get us anywhere, and I assumed you were trying to say more. I thought you were pointing out that science is, in general, an error-riddled sinkhole of idiocy (as so many creationists seem to believe).

Have you ever visited some of the creationist websites? Like "Answers in Genesis" or the "Institute for Creation Research"? You will find that the swamis who are at the cutting edge (that is, swamp) of creationism cling to their debunked errors, and keep repeating the same old garbage (such as the one about the 2nd law of thermodynamics). No reputable science site would keep on repeating demonstrable errors year after year.

In any case, I will make a further audacious conjecture, in this universe we will never have all of the answers.

Safe assumption.

109 posted on 01/14/2002 2:02:15 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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