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To: infoguy
The arrogance of these people is astounding. To think that it's not possible that an entity more intelligent and powerful than they, actually put humanity on this earth, shows what most of us already know. That they truly believe they are the most highly evolved beings in the universe. But that belief should really come as no surprise to anyone.
5 posted on 07/30/2006 1:09:19 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (Christ gave and died. Mohammed took and killed.)
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To: TruthBeforeAll
Do intelligent design people believe that cows could have evolved from buffalo? Or that Lions could have evolved from Tigers? Why can't evolutionists other than myself admit that Darwin was a Darwinist/Eugenicist?

"The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest
allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species,
has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is
descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear
of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the
general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the
series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in
various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies-
between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridae- between the elephant, and
in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna,
and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of
related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not
very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will
almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout
the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor
Schaaffhausen has remarked,* will no doubt be exterminated. The
break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it
will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may
hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon,
instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."


Darwin ch 6
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/descent_of_man/chapter_06.html
6 posted on 07/30/2006 1:20:20 PM PDT by budlt2369 (I tried to warn them about Peter Singer, but they wouldn't listen.)
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To: TruthBeforeAll

I'm not sure about the arrogance, but the axiomatic beliefs
some of the naturalists hold (I think goes under their own
radar)... might be considered here.
example:
1) the universe is ordered and is predictable
2) The human mind can understand "nature"
3) Human thought and rationalizaton is the final arbiter
of what "is"
4) Scientific method always brings out the truth.
5) Mathematics is a way of describing the universe, and is
always accurate
6) What experiments we have done accounts for all of
the natural order


Anyway, needless to say anyone who "believes" all the above
will certainly behave as if they have the corner on
knowledge. One thing is approximately true, that science
does many times correct itself, through the action of humans
bringing new repeatable information to light.


7 posted on 07/30/2006 1:24:59 PM PDT by Getready
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To: TruthBeforeAll

Are you talking about those that support ID or those that support evolution?


10 posted on 07/30/2006 1:28:11 PM PDT by RFC_Gal (There is no tagline)
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To: TruthBeforeAll
To think that it's not possible that an entity more intelligent and powerful than they, actually put humanity on this earth, shows what most of us already know.

Who has stated that such a thing is not possible? Please provide specific quotations.
20 posted on 07/30/2006 2:13:46 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: TruthBeforeAll
Amazing...ID is provable...evolution is only a theory and is pretty much worthless.
54 posted on 07/30/2006 4:39:29 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: TruthBeforeAll

They think that the oridinary human is just an intelligent ape. They, on the other hand, are gods.


196 posted on 07/30/2006 9:51:37 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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