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From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] creationism/evolution debate/challenge

> Kim writes:

>> this link has a number of questions that evolutionists find hard to
>> answer.
>>  http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=articles&specific=3

> The questions that are in this list are some of the most basic and
> actively pursued questions of evolutionary biology and cosmology.
> Some of the questions are easy to answer and I could go on for a few
> days answering them. Others are a little more difficult simply
> because our knowledge is still in an evolving state.

What Wirt said (well, some of it, anyway).

But my absolute favourite was no 22:

    What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of the other eight
or ten kinds?

which is a good question, capable of being thought-provoking, but also capable
of being answered. And more importantly, legitimately answered, as diversity
here is seen as valuable, healthy, and fully allowed for in the scientific
process. As is the mechanism by which differences in these eight or ten kinds
of evolutionism will be explored to produce the syntheses that will lead to
fewer kinds, maybe even just one eventually.

So eight or ten kinds, it's still, in its way, a united front.

But let's turn it around:

    What kind of religious person are you? Why are you not one of the other
eight or ten kinds?
                                                                (except it's
probably eighty or one hundred)

and it's much harder when played back to the original inquirer. Because
diversity here *isn't* seen as valuable, healthy, and fully allowed for in the
religious process.
Instead, it's dissent, schism, heresy, or worse.

Because every religion thinks its the 'one true' religion, and all others
(even other interpretations of Christianity, let alone Judaism which has at
least the same God, to say nothing of Islam, Bhuddism, Shinto, what-have-you)
are stone wrong. And there's no easy way of resolving these differences.

A theory of evolution is just that - a theory. You're bound to get differences
over it.

But a 'one true God'? You wouldn't think there was much room for argument over
that, now would you? But just look at all those different religions.

The other question I'd ask, BTW, apropos of all that complexity in science,
is:

    If there is a God, how come we need all this crap?

i.e, you'd think He would have created something a whole lot simpler.....

--
Roy Brown
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