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To: toneythetiger
I call it a ‘religion’ (no disrespect to true religions *__*) because evo’s have to have a ‘belief’ in something that has never been reproduced in a ‘scientific’ lab.

That's not enough to make something a religion. The word "belief" has many shades of meaning, and your statement ignores those differences. For example, I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, even though it hasn't happened yet. (And even the sun rising yesterday cannot be reproduced in a lab.) I do have evidence of the sun rising before, though, and confidence that it will again--that's one form of belief. But I don't have a "religion" about the sun rising.

I also believe that Scott Peterson killed his wife. Nobody saw it happen and it has not been reproduced in a lab, but the preponderance of evidence convinces me that's what happened. That's the kind of "belief" most people have in evolution: all the evidence, taken together, makes it the most likely explanation.

But again, that's not the same thing as religious belief. My belief in God doesn't depend on the accumulation of evidence. I bet yours doesn't either. To lump together (a) confidence in the repeatability of a pattern, (b) a conclusion based on the weight of evidence, and (c) religious faith, just because the word "belief" can apply to all of them, is really just a rhetorical trick.

641 posted on 08/17/2008 3:03:26 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

Tony is a well known hoaxer who visits sites like this to make religious people look stupid. It’s a goood act, but he give himself away by looking stupider than Jack Chick.


645 posted on 08/17/2008 3:46:33 PM PDT by js1138
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