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To: Javelina; Quix
How easy it is to dismiss all who agree with you as simply politically motivated.

Huh?

Science is not a religion.

Correct. Evolution, however is not science. It is nothing less than a naturalistic philosophy with tenets of faith, and the kind of faith that the secularists confess is at odds with reason: Belief in things for which there is zero evidence or even contrary evidence.

That is not what Christians mean by faith, mind you, but what secularists have redefined faith to be (for their own selfish purposes). One of the primary tenets of the naturalistic religion is the non-existence of miracles. A miracle would be an event that breaks a natural law. Abiogenesis, for example would be one of those miracles that violates the law of biogenesis. But miracles cannot happen so abiogenesis cannot be true. But abiogenesis must have happened because there are no miracles......

That takes great "faith" and blind leap into the realm of non-reason.

891 posted on 12/28/2004 12:33:05 AM PST by Dataman
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To: Dataman
Correct. Evolution, however is not science. It is nothing less than a naturalistic philosophy with tenets of faith, and the kind of faith that the secularists confess is at odds with reason: Belief in things for which there is zero evidence or even contrary evidence.

The theory of evolution is considered science because (a) it matches the observed facts (b) it makes numerous successful predictions (c) numerous possible falsifications exist but none has been demonstrated (d) no simpler natural theory has been that satisfies (a) and (b) and (c) has been proposed.

895 posted on 12/28/2004 2:35:06 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: Dataman

A ton of truth in your post.

THX.


896 posted on 12/28/2004 3:40:17 AM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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