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To: lews
"What I find funny is that most Darwinists will insist that evolution doesn't rule out the possibility of God's existence, yet any scientific evidence that supports His existence they emphatically deny and chastise the scientist as being a religious fundamentalist, whether or not it may be true."

You are being disingenuous. My complaint is about the methods of reasoning. Religionists base their beliefs on circular reasoning; i.e., because I can imagine a God exists, there must be a God who put the idea in my mind." Such arguments helped carry Christianity through the Middle ages. The Church lost it's grip over Europeans when Renaissance men began looking at the world from the view of inductive reasoning as a means to make generalizations about the world in which they live. This is the same as the Scientific method. We look at physical evidence and we then postulate ideas to explain the cause of the evidence. We test our ideas by experimenting with the variables in our hypothesis. Eventually our experiments help to confirm or deny the validity of our ideas.

All religions set themselves up as a faith based belief. If they attempted to use science, someone would shortly find a flaw in it. However, religion is safe when based upon a circular argument. The premise is usually the testimony of some prophet to whom God revealed the truth. It can’t be tested, but it can be said over and over as true. You may find Darwinists funny, but I don’t find humor in the use of circular reasoning as used by religionists to attack credible science. It’s about as funny as watching fundamental Islamics blast historic statues of Buddha off the side of an Afghanistan mountain. If you want to be useful in the realm of science as it conflicts with religion, maybe you could spend time searching for valid physical evidence and proofs of historic religious miracles to support your faith.

28 posted on 07/08/2002 2:25:31 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
-- My complaint is about the methods of reasoning. Religionists base their beliefs on circular reasoning; i.e., because I can imagine a God exists, there must be a God who put the idea in my mind." --

We seem to have the same issue. My complaint is also about the methods of reasoning. Darwinists base their beliefs on circular reasoning; i.e., "because I can imaging that God doesn't exist, there must not be a God."

You are committing the same error that you are accusing others of making. Your entire theory is based on the assumption that God doesn't exist and is purely the concoction of primitive man. Now, uless you are aware of some new research that I am not, I don't think you can validly make that statement.

And yes, I still do find it humurous watching the Darwinists use circular reasoning to imply that religionists reason circularly. Your post is the classic example.

Look who is being disingenuous now.


30 posted on 07/08/2002 2:42:29 PM PDT by lews
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