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To: Blessed
That's where the "faith" part comes into play ...

What you call faith, an ordinary person would call confidence in the regularity of the laws of nature.

I can recall the OJ Simpson trial in which many FReepers ridiculed the OJ jurors for their refusal to make common sense inductions from evidence. It's true that they did not witness the murders, nor apparently did any surviving person. There was no weapon, and the accused was in another city on the evening of the murders.

Still, we expected the jurors to follow a chain of evidence and put a person in prison, possibly in the gas chamber, based on circumstantial evidence.

The evidence for evolution has accumulated for the last several hundred years, collected and analyzed by tens of thousands of researchers. Opposed to the evolutionary interpretation of the evidence you have the Dream Team of Dr. Dino, and a few others who are eloquent and charismatic. They have neither the law nor the evidence on their side, but they are great at pounding the table.

You may feel free to align yourself with the OJ jury, but I would be embarrassed to be in their company.

71 posted on 02/02/2004 8:50:09 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
>The evidence for evolution has accumulated for the last several hundred years, collected and analyzed by tens of thousands of researchers.<

..and in the process they have thrown out and refused to deal with any contradictory evidence.After all it is much easier to call names and bluff your way through than deal with these contradictions.Ah!but we believe in the scientific method.We believe in cause and effect.(when it fits our theory)
80 posted on 02/02/2004 9:02:23 AM PST by Blessed
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