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To: gregwest
It's intent was to sow doubt in the existence of God. That's why it is championed by the godless.

Not true. TOE is a scientific theory that does not address a deity. (Either for or against)

165 posted on 06/07/2006 3:11:37 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Not to turn this into an creationism vs. evolution thread, but Darwin's theories come from a heart that lost its faith. He had trained for the ministry and completed his studies, but was never ordained. "Out of the abundance of the heart, a man speaketh." Darwin wrote in his autobiography:

"....During these two years (March 1837 - January 1839) I was led to think much about religion. Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality. I suppose it was the novelty of the argument that amused them. But I had gradually come by this time (i.e. 1836 to 1839) to see the Old Testament, from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rain-bow as a sign, &c., &c., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian....
....Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true...."

I cannot help believing that his ideas are nothing but the incredibly sophisticated rationalizations of a genius who fell away from his faith and descended into apostasy.


200 posted on 06/07/2006 6:20:59 PM PDT by gregwest
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