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To: derheimwill
We infer nothing unfound or unfounded. That's the point. I will take on an "unprovable" premise if Scripture demands it and I admit it.

Then you are going to have some difficulty living your life, as you can't even infer from your own certain knowledge that the rest of the universe outside the room that you are currently in didn't just stop existing. So you had better stay where you are in case there is no oxygen anywhere else. Nobody is that nihilistic. You don't demand such standards of proof anywhere else in your life.

What you really mean is that you believe that evolution contradicts your interpretation of your holy book and therefore you reject it regardless of the evidence for it, which can never be so complete as to force acceptance if you are set upon rejection.

782 posted on 12/21/2004 7:21:38 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: Thatcherite
Then ...you can't even infer from your own certain knowledge that the rest of the universe outside the room that you are currently in didn't just stop existing.

This is not an "inference." Rather, it is "founded" on prior experience.

You don't demand such standards of proof anywhere else in your life.

You misunderstand my standard. Data must be found in nature or founded upon sufficient authority.

What you really mean is that you believe that evolution contradicts your interpretation of your holy book

You assume again. I believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis and in microevolution thereafter. How else could Noah have gotten the entire genepool onto the ark?

783 posted on 12/21/2004 7:38:01 AM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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