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To: Valin

Tell me: if you enrolled in a Catholic seminary (or, to avoid needless sectarianism, just assume the religious trainign academy of your choice) and at the conclusion of your training professed a belief that Ba'al was your lord and master, and that the universe was sneezed out the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizure... what kind of priest would you be?

If you trained to be an engineer, and at the conclusion of your studies you maintained that F=M+A and that the ultimate structual material would be an alloy of butter, paint and wishing real hard, what kind of engineer would you be?

If you trained to be a doctor and at the end professed that the germ theory of disease was bunk and that one must treat the "humours," what kind of doctor would you be?

In all these cases, assume that you passed all your courses with flying colors. Yay! But you're still an idiot. And the school in question would know that its reputation and even accreditation would be put at risk, not to mention the lives (or souls, as you wish) of an unsuspecting public if they unleashed you upon them with a diploma.


11 posted on 10/11/2005 8:36:25 AM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: orionblamblam

Please do not discredit yourself by attempting to compare that which can be demonstrably and objectively proven with macroevolution, which cannot.


13 posted on 10/11/2005 8:46:23 AM PDT by Elsiejay (Forever wondering)
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To: orionblamblam

Mighty fine strawman you've got there.


29 posted on 10/11/2005 8:48:35 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: orionblamblam
If you trained to be an engineer, and at the conclusion of your studies you maintained that F=M+A and that the ultimate structual material would be an alloy of butter, paint and wishing real hard, what kind of engineer would you be?

That would be a SOFTWARE engineer, obviously! ;-P

34 posted on 10/12/2005 11:47:34 AM PDT by MortMan (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: orionblamblam
Tell me: if you enrolled in a Catholic seminary (or, to avoid needless sectarianism, just assume the religious trainign academy of your choice) and at the conclusion of your training professed a belief that Ba'al was your lord and master, and that the universe was sneezed out the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizure... what kind of priest would you be?

So you are equating the belief in and teching of evolution for a scientist with the requirement that a priest/clergy believe and adhere to the faith that they are to teach to the members of that church? This analogy doesn't work.

35 posted on 10/12/2005 11:50:10 AM PDT by MortMan (Eschew Obfuscation)
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