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To: PatrickHenry
Yes! That is precisely the issue! I assume you agree that the answers of science are just fine -- but only scientifically.
Science is far from infallible, and Darwinistic science has no foundation for answers about life (not the biological mechanisms, the rest of life)because it has no foundation for such having thrown out the supernatural.

So at that point it's a question of your personal ranking of information.
No, it is a matter of God's truth. It doesn't matter if I believe it or not, truth is truth. There are indeed ABSOLUTES in the world, and God set them up. If I want life to go well, I will live by His standards. If not, I can choose not to but that does not change the truth. I may believe that I can jump off a building and that gravity will not be real and I'll float to the ground- but that doesn't change the truth. The TRUTH belongs to God, and all truth is His truth. Some of it, He has revealed in Scripture to us. Some of it, will be seen in the afterlife. But all Truth is true truth and all truth is God's truth.
2,377 posted on 08/24/2003 11:07:39 AM PDT by DittoJed2
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To: DittoJed2; PatrickHenry
Er, if I may throw in two cents and a link for the Lurkers following your discussion...

Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't even attempt to define "what is life". Indeed, it is a question of great importance and interest - but mostly to physicists, philosophers and theologians:

The Physics of Symbols: Bridging the Epistemic Cut


2,380 posted on 08/24/2003 11:19:29 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: DittoJed2
Science is far from infallible ...

No one claims that science is infallible. Science is constantly looking for new evidence, and revising old theories. If you're arguing against infallability, you're arguing against something that isn't there.

... and Darwinistic science has no foundation for answers about life (not the biological mechanisms, the rest of life)because it has no foundation for such having thrown out the supernatural.

Darwin never set out to write a book of morality. He wanted to explain the way species develop over time. Nor did he throw out the supernatural. No more than other sciences do when they explain natural phenomena that had been previously believed to be divinely caused: disease, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, comets, lighting, the power of the sun, etc.

The TRUTH belongs to God, and all truth is His truth.

Yes, now we're back to my original question. If a scientific observation clearly conflicts with scripture, how do you decide what to believe? This is exactly the problem presented to the Christian world when Galileo discovered evidence for the solar system, which was believed to contradict several passages of scripture. The church forced Galileo to confess heresy, they banned his book, and they confined him to house arrest for the last seven years of his life.

Do you reject the solar system? If not, why not?

2,381 posted on 08/24/2003 11:28:54 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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