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sidelined
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Message 11 of 25 (80536)
01-24-2004 7:22 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by apostolos
01-24-2004 4:58 PM


apostolos
In response to your request
I am curious to know why you, as an evolutionist, have made the choice to exercise your faith in this way.
This is a difficult reply since it must seem like dodging but I sincerely do not have faith in evolution in the sense that it is not my impression that faith has any place in rational thinking. Either the evidence weighs in favor of evolution or creationism or something altogether different from both of them. The evidence weighs hugely in favor of evolution and not creationism or any other worldview.

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.'
(Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

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sidelined
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Message 15 of 25 (80561)
01-24-2004 10:16 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by apostolos
01-24-2004 8:56 PM


Re: What I meant...
apostolos
I am not sure if you fully understand your own question.Look at the examples you are using to assert the point you wish to make.First you have this.
If I set and an apple and an orange in front of you and say choose which you will eat, you will make a choice
Then you somehow think that this is in the same vein as this choice.
As an evolutionist who does not believe in the existence of God, you have made a choice of belief against the existence of God
In the choice between an apple and an orange you have evidence from which to make the choice.It is not the same in the choice of there being or not being a God.Until evidence is presented belief is not possible.
Why is it such a diffcult concept to realize that understanding based on evidence is not the same as faith.

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.'
(Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

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