[Dataman]

Let it be known here and now that Dimensio insists evolution has nothing to say about God's creation of the universe or His bringing forth of life from non-life.

donh: That is correct.

whattajoke: Let it also be known that I, whattajoke, an avowed non-theist, non believer in anything supernatural at all, cannot disagree with your statement.

quickl: Wow, you've finally gotten what we've been saying all along?

dimensio: I do not, however, see such an assertion as incompatable with or contradictory to the theory of evolution.

So tell me fellas, how is it you can allow for a supernatural creation of the universe and a supernatural beginning of life, but reject with absolute certainty --yet without any proof whatsoever--, a supernatural beginning for man?

Don't tell me it is because special creation is unscientific. You just admitted the possibility of two other "unscientific" events.

[Dimensio]

So tell me fellas, how is it you can allow for a supernatural creation of the universe and a supernatural beginning of life, but reject with absolute certainty --yet without any proof whatsoever--, a supernatural beginning for man?

Well, I certainly don't "reject" the possibility of a supernatural origin for humans. I simply recognize that such explanations are not scientific and I claim to have seen absolutely no evidence for such a supernatural creation.

[donh]

So tell me fellas, how is it you can allow for a supernatural creation of the universe and a supernatural beginning of life, but reject with absolute certainty --yet without any proof whatsoever--, a supernatural beginning for man?

Apprently, you can't read either. Is this some kind of creationist infection that's going around? Nothing in any of what your quoted deponents said suggests that they "reject with absolute certainty" a supernatural beginning for man.

I can't speak for all skeptics, but what I reject is that there is some sort of slapdown contest between what science knows or cares about, and God's place in creation. Science is about material evidence. About immaterial or unavailable evidence, science quite properly stands mute.