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To: LogicWings
Rather than trying to prove the unprovable, as contemporary creationists do.

I suppose some creationists do this. Perhaps not as many though as evolutionists who claim something is proven, when it is not. I'm sure there are reasons for fools and that fools reason. However I don't imply that you are a fool.

You may be interested in this thread by betty boop, for considering what is and is not demonstrated by our physical surroundings. You'd have to use your imagination! If metaphysics and irrational mental exercises are foolishness to you, though, even for the purposes of becoming well-reasoned, you probably won't be interested.:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/860737/posts

1,686 posted on 03/12/2003 12:07:23 PM PST by unspun
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To: unspun
evolutionists who claim something is proven, when it is not.

I have gone over this claim with Rachumlakenschlaff several times on this very thread. Here for example.

Then I turn around and the same claim pops up again. I'm telling you it's like rabbits around here.

Once again, and for the record:

Theories can NEVER be proved!

1,687 posted on 03/12/2003 2:59:30 PM PST by Condorman
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To: unspun
I suppose some creationists do this.

All creatioinists, by definition, attempt to prove the unprovable, by definition. It is in the very construction of the idea of creationism.

I'm sure there are reasons for fools and that fools reason.

I'm sure you don't really understand reason then.

You'd have to use your imagination! If metaphysics and irrational mental exercises are foolishness to you, though, even for the purposes of becoming well-reasoned, you probably won't be interested.

You're right, I'm not. This is a straw man argument. Imagination has its function, but doesn't 'prove' anything. You conflate metaphysics and irrational mental 'exercises' with actual science and scientific claims, as if they were equally valid.

Reminds me of the anti-war ninnies that claim moral equivalence between Bush and Saddam. Like those idiots who claim Bush is a 'dictator.' There is no 'reason' I should take such ideas seriously.

1,720 posted on 04/02/2003 1:04:56 PM PST by LogicWings
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