Posted on 02/14/2007 2:07:15 PM PST by Tim Long
You must love to get patted on the head by your teachers. I bet you think you came to a self-investigated rational conclusion while believing everything that people told you.
I believe he was an agnostic.
My Southern Baptist grandmother bad mouths Catholics too. I just can't stand it. And there is not use in telling her that Baptist and Catholics agree on the fundementals of Christianity. And I don't understand why people think that science and evolution are a threat to Christianity. Some people just don't realize science studies natural processes, which is completely separate from the supernatural(God). There are many people, including the Vatican and Pope John Paul II, that realize that one can accept science and believe in God and Christianity. I've certainly had no trouble accepting science and retaining my Christian beliefs.
I couldn't agree more. Looking at the threads on usenet, slashdot, digg, and here, it seems like evolutionists are so full of themselves that they either pat themselves on the back for uncritically believing what they were taught in school (while thinking they are so smart), or firing off ad-hominems at creationist straw-men of their imaginations.
Science and creationism are not incompatible
Dawkins says that evolution proves religion is a lie. He leaves no room for theistic evolutionists.
Sounds like a Clint Eastwood movie i.e. the Good (Lincoln), the bad (Darwin), and you'd need some sort of a really good candidate for the ugly part of it, possibly Madeline Albright. She's definitely ugly enough to have been born in 1809....
I tend to agree that the debate needs to be framed in these terms. Sort of the "I wish that you were cold or hot" scenario. People need to pick naturalism or supernaturalism. Theistic Darwinism is rather silly.
Elections are turned by just one or two percent of the votes.
When conservatives chase away people who are scientifically literate, do you think there will be enough creationists left to win a vote?
Whatever anyone's belief is about evolution, this Darwin's Day event has a anti-religious element to it, and that may be the primary motivation for holding this event.
Creationists are such nice people.
I didn't say I agreed with Dawkins. I very much dislike Dawkins, disagree with his premise science disproves God, and find him to be an intolerant, arrogant jerk.
Only literate in nonsense. Darwinists don't tend to be the strongest conservatives. When you believe humans are descendents of ooze, politics don't seem that important.
"Theistic Darwinism is rather silly."
I guess Pope John Paul II was silly then.
Please explain when the "dark ages" ended and the "Age of Reason" began.
Why? If creationism is correct, then God is playing one heck of a mind game on us. On the other hand, the birth of Jesus is not so at odds with the available evidence (especially if taken in its original, without the translation problems such as "virgin" for "young woman," etc.)
Evolution proves that Genesis is not literal. Beyond that is irrelevant.
You're talking to the wrong person. Fiercely Protestant.
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