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To: bvw
All you've pointed to is a false analogy and a false choice. First, no scientific theory, be it evolution, stellar formation, or Big Bang cosmology is the equivalent to random coin tosses. There are random elements to evolution as well as many other sciences, but evolution is not strictly random.

Further, it is a false choice to say that the choice is between blind chance and a God pulling the strings. There are many shades of possibility, not only between these poles, but outside of them, as well.

Finally, while the "fossil evidence, chemestry and known physics" make it improbable that we are here by random processes, no one, to my knowledge, is proposing that strictly random processes are responsible for use being here.

Lastly, you claim that "belief" is something that you avoid, yet you profess belief in an entity you cannot see, test or know and for which there is no objective evidence. Indeed, you do not use the entire word "God", presumably to avoid the defacement of the name of this entity. That's beyond belief. That's faith, and I don't think there is anything wrong it, but don't kid yourself that you are a rationalist, and your belief in the supernatural theory of ID is based on logic and reason.

1,866 posted on 02/07/2005 12:08:59 PM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash

Much of science is inference of stuff you can not see or test directly. We infer from observations, for example using probability analysis. You have a "belief" that G-d is impossible to even logically infer from observation. That belief has NO support.


1,876 posted on 02/07/2005 1:49:16 PM PST by bvw
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