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To: Central Scrutiniser
Being a Creationist is exactly like Liberals who MUST believe in Global Warming. Different political spectrum, but both theories are based upon emotions.

You will see the same arguments used. They MUST believe in it, or their world-view will collapse.

Once again, I do believe that God created life, and science is the exploration of how it was done. I have never understood the reasons for this debate.

52 posted on 12/03/2003 7:01:04 PM PST by Hunble
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To: Hunble
I have never understood the reasons for this debate.

The debate exists because there are "fundamentalists" on both sides. The "scientific" fundamentalists like the late Stephen Jay Gould simply won't consider even the possiblity of any causation beyond what can be detected and measured by science. The religious fundamentalists believe in the absolute and literal truth of whatever holy book or teaching they subscribe to.

Of course there's a huge area in the middle that allows for acceptance of evolution in a universal scheme far beyond the possibility of human understanding. It also allows for the possibility of a "C/creator." Because we are all "Strangers and afraid in a world we never made," (to take a few liberties with A.E. Housman), we all tend to buy into and cling to whatever belief system that gives us most comfort.

245 posted on 12/04/2003 11:01:10 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.)
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