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To: highball
"I'm not sure what you're driving at...and science should not be faulted for ignoring supernatural explanations..."

1. Evolution is faith-based, which is demonstrated via the assumed conclusions that are accepted despite the actual evidence (HOX gene mutations responsible, in large part, for lobe-finned fish transformation from fish to land-dwelling mammal with arms/legs and hands/feet with digits, feathered dinosaur frauds Sinosauropteryx and so on, and etc.)

It takes faith, not evidence (sometimes in spite of the evidence), to construct an evolutionary model that shows a simple single-celled organism, in a primordial stew, evolving into the diversity and complexity of life observeable today.

2. Science does not ignore the supernatural. It attacks it...especially on these threads (as evidence of this, please note a previous post on this thread in which the poster mentions the flying spaghetti monster in opposition to the God of the Bible. Also see Dawkins, Gould, and others who freely offer opinions on the supernatural and related beliefs).

Science, especially around here, attempts to decontruct the supernatural...not ignore it.

There is not "plenty of evidence to support natural explanation" for science's theories of abiogenesis (aliens and chance).

It is a faith-based bias that leads one to denigrade, or even address, a supernatural explanation for origins...not a scientific one.

162 posted on 01/03/2006 4:13:48 PM PST by pby
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To: pby
Science does not ignore the supernatural. It attacks it...especially on these threads (as evidence of this, please note a previous post on this thread in which the poster mentions the flying spaghetti monster in opposition to the God of the Bible.

Oh, brother. If you don't recognize sarcasm on these boards, you can't enjoy them very much.

There is not "plenty of evidence to support natural explanation" for science's theories of abiogenesis (aliens and chance).

Reminder: the origins of life have absolutely nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution, any more than Gravitational Theory requires exploring the origin of matter. It's a transparent attempt to muddy the waters.

164 posted on 01/03/2006 4:16:53 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pby
Science does not ignore the supernatural. It attacks it...

I see you've confirmed my hypothesis before I even posted. Oh well.
168 posted on 01/03/2006 4:27:33 PM PST by self_evident
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