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To: Gladwin
"If you are going to teach the Darwinist view that organisms may look like they were designed but weren't, then you have to allow for the possibility that they look like they were designed because they were designed,"

If you are going to teach results of two hundred years painstaking research by hundreds of thousands of scientists highly trained in a multitude of disciplines, then you have to teach what I heard last week in Sunday school.

4 posted on 05/30/2002 7:53:06 AM PDT by OBAFGKM
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To: OBAFGKM
If you are going to teach results of two hundred years painstaking research by hundreds of thousands of scientists highly trained in a multitude of disciplines, then you have to teach what I heard last week in Sunday school.

On the other hand, you could teach;

That the world is so full of living things that after a few thousand years those highly trained and dedicated multitudes have been unable to count them all.

And that even the simplest of these living things is so staggeringly complex that all of our own wonderful intelligence has not come anywhere close to being able to understand it, let alone duplicate it.

And, that the odds of such an inconceivably large number of unimaginably complex things having occured due to random processes is so far out of the bounds of probability, that it is very difficult to express just how far out of bounds they are. The numbers are so large, there is nothing in the universe to compare them to. Not even the number of sub atomic particles in the entire universe.

And, that the number of people who have personally experienced the truth of a Creator in there own lives number in the Billions, and spans many thousands of years.

And, that a large majority of the most respected intellects in history are counted among them, scientists and all, to this very day.

And, that because of all of this, their (the students) own lifes actually do have meaning and purpose.

So, when life get really hard, as it does at times for all, they have a means available to cope with it other than absolute hopeless, meaningless anguish.

And, that contrary to what Hollywood and liberals would have them believe, people of faith have done immeasurably more good for humanity than harm.

371 posted on 05/30/2002 9:33:04 PM PDT by GSHastings
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To: OBAFGKM
If you are going to teach results of two hundred years painstaking research by hundreds of thousands of scientists highly trained in a multitude of disciplines,

argument from authority

then you have to teach what I heard last week in Sunday school.

strawman

surely one can do better.

931 posted on 06/04/2002 5:08:22 PM PDT by sayfer bullets
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