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To: Dimensio

It doesn't matter. You can define the alternative solutions as simply "intelligent external inteference" OR "intelligent design". You don't have to pick a God or pick between God and ET to recognize "external influence" as fitting the observations better than "natural selection".

YOU need to pick a God, because there are eternal consequences riding on you choice, including the choice not to pick or to pick no God. But that's your problem and responsibility and your's alone.


570 posted on 01/23/2005 1:26:23 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
It doesn't matter. You can define the alternative solutions as simply "intelligent external inteference" OR "intelligent design".

This all appears to be a matter of recognizing the Primary Cause.

A Materialist, an adherent to ID and a Young Earth Creationists are standing on a bridge overlooking a river. Just upstream from them is a bend where they can't see beyond. Floating towards them is what appears to be an abandoned rubber raft. The ID scientist says, someone must have lost that raft up near the park a mile away. The Materialist yells an insult at the ID scientist and says No way! That rubber raft formed itself out of debris around this river's origin hundreds of miles away. So the two argue about the source of the raft, while the Creationist goes down, wades into the water and intercepts the raft. "What are you doing!?" the two on the bridge yell. The Young Earth Creationist yells back, "My wife just called and told me that our son's raft got loose and was floating down stream and asked if I would go get it.".

The point being, both the ID and the Young Earth Creationists knew instinctively that there is a reasonable explanation for the evidence. The Materialist, seeing the exact same evidence categorically rejected the idea that the raft was made and released in the river only twenty minutes upstream and believed that the raft came together purely by accident and that it began its journey from debris only found at the beginning of the river. The Creationist, relied on the information given to him by an eye witness of the event, and acted on this information to actually accomplish something while the others stood above it all arguing and doing nothing.

590 posted on 01/23/2005 8:29:42 PM PST by Reuben Hick
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