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To: Cicero
"On the contrary, Darwinism posits as its underlying axiom that God never intervenes in any way in the universe and that divine providence plays no role in nature or history. You could, if you liked, believe in some sort of Deist clockmaker God, if you liked, but nothing more than that."

Evolution says no such thing. It says that science cannot test any claims about the existence of a deity, not that one doesn't exist. It is like ALL other sciences in that regard. Not one science makes claims that include supernatural, nonphysical, untestable explanations.
56 posted on 11/29/2005 12:09:34 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Evolution says no such thing. It says that science cannot test any claims about the existence of a deity, not that one doesn't exist.

Actually, evolution doesn't say that much either. Evolution says nothing whatsoever regarding deities at all. Science in general doesn't touch deities. Anyone who claims that any branch of science, including the theory of evolution, has any axioms regarding any deities is either lying or fundamentally ignorant of how science works.
59 posted on 11/29/2005 12:25:54 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Not one science makes claims that include supernatural, nonphysical, untestable explanations.

You have to presuppose the nonphysical for there to be any such thing as a scientific explanation in the first place, a concept that itself is untestable and thus a sort of super-natural claim, underived from science.

Cordially,

401 posted on 11/30/2005 12:25:45 PM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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