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To: Hank Kerchief

You want postmodernism? Here’s postmodernism.

“Ultimately, the [evolution versus creation] argument is about how you interpret the facts—and this depends upon your belief about history. The real difference is that we have different ‘histories’…, which we use to interpret the science and facts of the present.”

“Creationists and evolutionists… all have the same evidence—the same facts,” he insists in another article on evidentiary proof, emphasizing that our presuppositions frame how we interpret those facts. “Christians,” he writes, have the Bible and the stories therein provide “a set of presuppositions to build a way of thinking which enables [Christians] to interpret the evidence.” Evolutionists, on the other hand, “have certain beliefs about the past/present that they presuppose, e.g. no God... so they build a different way of thinking to interpret the evidence of the present.”


19 posted on 04/29/2008 11:38:45 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
"You want postmodernism? Here’s postmodernism."

I thought postmodernism began with the bronze age which replaced modern knapping.

22 posted on 04/29/2008 11:51:13 AM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: js1138

Yup! That’s postmodernism.

Anything but objective reason.

Thanks!

Hank


29 posted on 04/29/2008 12:29:25 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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