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To: WildTurkey

The belief in God does not mean you can't believe in science. We are not threatened by what we don't know and don't understand. True believers in evolution feel threatened by that which they don't understand and can't explain. Hence they cling to an unproven theory because they refuse to believe in a higher power and can stand having such a big 'unknown' so they get upset when evolution is questioned because they have nothing to replace it with. Those that do believe in a designing power are comfortable with not being able to understand every aspect of the creation a supreme mind created. They know on some level they personally will never be able to understand it all so they are able to seek understanding without desperation and without making leaps of faith involving improbably chance and eons of time. Evolution is not incompatible with faith in God but lack of faith in God is incompatible with anything BUT evolution. Hence they will defend the theory with zealous fervor until another explanation for life the universe and everything comes along. Such an attitude is incompatible with the scientific process since it assumes a solution and constantly seeks only to prove that solution. By itself that is not a problem but going about it by making leaps of logic with no evidence and building complex models based on tiny fragments is exercising a higher level of blind faith than evolutionist accuse creationists of. This cuts both ways. Anyone that presumes to know the exact processes by which things came about and blindly seeks to prove those to the exclusion of all else is jeopardizing their scientific objectivity. My observation is that people with the belief in God are more open to objectively viewing the data at hand than those whose world view is dependent on there NOT being an intelligent designer.


184 posted on 11/18/2004 8:59:41 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ
so they are able to seek understanding without desperation and without making leaps of faith

Belief in God requires the greatest leap of faith. As to your words about evolutionists, you are totally ignorant of what they think and believe.

185 posted on 11/18/2004 9:02:50 AM PST by WildTurkey
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