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To: DallasMike; js1138; steve-b
"Thanks, I like that quote. It can never be repeated enough on threads like these."

Yes, because Augustine was directly refering to "old Earthers" when he penned that. He detested their willful ignorance.

55 posted on 02/18/2009 7:03:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor

No, he wasn’t. He was referring to those who upheld the steady-state model of the uncreated universe, which denied the necessity of a Creator.


56 posted on 02/18/2009 7:11:33 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Nope. He was referring to people who refused to study the facts and educate themselves. Given the state of the evidence now, that would be the young-earth pseudoscience crowd.


79 posted on 02/19/2009 6:05:13 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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