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To: ndt

[You only know about the complexity of the genomes of several animals and plants (and fungi) because the information was made available to you by people, who nearly to the man accept evolution.]

That is the most ignorant statement I’ve read in several minutes.

The founders of all sciences, nearly to the man, accepted God, until very recently.

Are you so blind to reality that you think that all of history’s great scientific thinkers were evolutionists?

Those of whom you speak merely stood on the shoulders of giants, adding to a body of work that was hundreds, or even thousands of years in the making.


65 posted on 07/14/2007 12:25:53 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: jim35
"The founders of all sciences, nearly to the man, accepted God, until very recently."

When exactly is it you think we discovered the complexity of genomes?
68 posted on 07/14/2007 12:29:28 PM PDT by ndt
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To: jim35; ndt

You (jim35) keep treating accepting God and accepting evolution as mutually exclusive. They aren't. Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was written on a scientific expedition he was undertaking in pursuit of a position in the Episcopal ministry.

The real problem is that until recently, men (and women) of God were required to also be men of science. Nowadays, you can become a "pastor" just by having a bad haircut and the ability to say "Lord" in three syllables. The veneration of ignorance in parts of America's religious subculture have given rise to the completely farcical idea that good science and good religion are incompatible. In fact, they are not.

110 posted on 07/14/2007 1:49:19 PM PDT by Mr. Know It All (Term Limits: Stop us before we vote again!)
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