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To: allmendream
You have tried your best to hijack the thread, but so far you have not succeeded.

Look I would not have won an argument in Germany with Nazi Anthropologists either, but that would not mean I did not know enough about their field of knowledge to doubt or reject it. Science as you call it does not have all the answers. People who identity themselves as scientists for the vast majority are not scientists either.

Here are a few tenants of materialist beliefs. Think someone might see a resemblance in you?

MATERIALIST BELIEFS

Believe that the material universe, governed by natural laws and chance, is the ultimate and only reality and that all apparently nonmaterial substances, such as mind, are explicable as modifications of matter.

Believe that science is the means of understanding all the secrets of the universe, for all phenomena are the result of material processes which are governed by predictable, natural laws.

Believe that man, the highest and most complex of the evolutionary process prevailing throughout the universe, may continue to evolve into an even more perfect being or higher species (utopian materialism).

Believe in Darwin's theory of evolution as scientific fact, and in naturalism, holding that the known world is all that exists, and that it has no supernatural or spiritual creation, control or significance.

51 posted on 04/12/2010 11:55:28 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1
Godwin's rule invoked.

Epic fail.

I never said science had “all the answers”. That is a strawman of your own construction.

Neither do I suppose that the “only” reality is that which can be explained observed and predicted using the scientific method.

Once again you seem to acknowledge that you cannot win the argument on the merits of fact data or theory; so you attempt to re-frame the debate to the only one you think you have any chance of winning ‘atheism’ vs ‘god’.

But I, and most scientists, are not atheists. Nothing in evolutionary theory is predicated upon or dependent upon atheism, and most scientist, like myself, have faith in God.

53 posted on 04/12/2010 12:06:23 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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