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Cold Foreign Object 
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Message 149 of 201 (318353)
06-06-2006 1:37 PM
Reply to: Message 148 by Brian
06-06-2006 1:13 PM


Re: Science & Religion
And who do you suggest that we debate with once all the creationists are gone?
The problem for my subjects here is that most of my opponents are starting off with a faulty approach to what history and archaeology actually is. In their world anything is possible, in the academic world we have to justify our conclusions, archaeologist Lewis Bindford calls it 'inference justification'. On this site arguments are supposed to be supported, and historical enquiry is a lot like scientific enquiry, but most of the creo crew don't seem to get it.
There has to be bias in favour of the creos, just as a first year high school student would get more wiggle room than a post graduate.
You cannot hold them up to the same standard if one doesn't understand what the standards are. What we can hope for though is that some of the creos may come to understand what critical enquiry is.
To what degree is your admitted atheism responsible for these opinions ?
Ray

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