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To: Liberal Classic

For a productive discussion on how modern man has abandoned rationality where it comes to the "upper story" (religious faith) you might want to consult the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer's writings.

You wrote: "Religious people should accept evolution for the simple reason that it is true." If you are referring to macroevolution, please produce proof of your assertions, not just disjointed fragments of mammalian skeletal remains from different parts of the globe cobbled together with educated guesses by some people more and some people less sincere.

The "tree" by coyoteman even acknowledges it is a "best guess", and has some very partial and sketchy fragments of skulls included.

What many don't realize is that sometimes these HUGE finds of "millions" of years old humans are usually only a partial skeleton, perhaps a few teeth, and some other bone fragments. The rest is speculation.

If you want to reconcile macroevolution and the Biblical record of the origin of man and be rational (logically consistent) you have a lot of explaining to do.


171 posted on 09/18/2006 6:24:36 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: srweaver
What many don't realize is that sometimes these HUGE finds of "millions" of years old humans are usually only a partial skeleton, perhaps a few teeth, and some other bone fragments. The rest is speculation.

Many people do realize this. But, do you realize that with several decades of study, paleontologists and other experts get to be quite good at what they do?

When you have a lot of fossils, you can fill in for missing data on a particular specimen. Experts routinely do this in a lot of different fields.

Your are confusing your religious belief, which leads you to discount evolution no matter what the data may be, with scientific evidence. In the fields of science, your doubt does not constitute a scientific argument, and your opinions are those of an uninformed layman.

176 posted on 09/18/2006 6:36:38 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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