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To: count-your-change
That's why I find the argument, “you just don't understand science/Darwinism”, against the Bible as any kind of authority (that seems to the real target or at least, a co-target of Darwinism) tiresome.

Interesting thought: Most evolutionists have no problem with the Bible. It is the YECrs that have all the problems with trying to reconcile the Bible with today's advancing science data base. Maybe your viewpoint is what is wrong.

116 posted on 06/13/2009 12:41:55 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater
Well I'm can be wrong as easily as the next fellow and maybe more so as I've had practice.

“Most evolutionists have no problem with the Bible” IF:

It is allegory or myth’

it in no way speaks to the opinions of evolutionists,

where Scripture contradicts the opinion of Darwinists
the Scriptures are by, default, in error,

or, The Bible and what it says is irrelevant to questions of man's nature and origin,

Yes, under those caveats I can see why Darwinists would have “no problem with the Bible.”

And it not just the YEC folks but anyone who attributes intervention into the affairs of man by God.

As Carl Sagan so memorably put it, we should have the courage to eliminate God as a first cause since no on can say where He came from, the same problem faced when asking what was before the “big bang”.

Of course Sagan did allow that a “benign and indifferent” God was acceptable.

Darwinists like the late Jay Gould said repeatedly that religion and science (he was discussing evolution and creationism of all flavors) each had their own “magisterium’
that touched but didn't quite overlap.

Since Gould also said evolution was fact that would put
religion's “magisterium” in the back of the bus with Darwinists in the driver's seat of the Reality Express.

Religion can sit where ever it wants in the back seats, just don't argue with the driver about his driving skills or where he goes.

Of course I could be wrong as I've not been ‘sainted’ or achieved ‘near divinity’, unlike Darwin, in Gould's words.

148 posted on 06/13/2009 2:14:07 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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