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Message 244 of 326 (462088)
03-30-2008 11:47 AM
Reply to: Message 242 by Beretta
03-30-2008 10:56 AM


Re: Uniformitarianism
Hi Beretta,
Please read the opening post, Message 1. It will give you a pretty good idea of the topic of this thread.
See you tomorrow.
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Message 246 of 326 (462195)
04-01-2008 11:04 AM
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04-01-2008 10:29 AM


Re: Faith in Science
Hi Beretta,
I can only refer you again to Message 1. The only thing your position has in common with Rob's position described in Message 1 is your use of the word "faith". Maybe you're not familiar with Rob's views, but he has a very religious outlook. He thinks that science uses the same faith to support its theories as he does in believing that when he dies his soul goes to heaven.
Your argument, actually more than one but I'll attempt to sum them up under a single umbrella, is that the assumptions underpinning mainstream science (what you're calling a "worldview") are insufficiently supported with evidence and are of questionable validity.
Why don't you just propose a new thread (over at [forum=-25]) to discuss what you'd really like to talk about, the ill-advised adoption of naturalistic assumptions by science. In other words, you really want to talk about naturalism, not faith.
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Message 248 of 326 (462204)
04-01-2008 2:15 PM
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04-01-2008 11:58 AM


Re: Faith in Science
I appreciate yours and Beretta's efforts to tie your discussion into the thread's topic, but it is apparent that what people really want to discuss is evolution, radiometric dating and naturalism.
In this thread I'm trying to avoid another discussion similar to the one's with ICANT and Rob, where interpretations of evidence they disagreed with were called faith. I wouldn't allow a thread arguing that science had proven God doesn't exist, and I'm trying to discourage discussion in threads that make this silly faith argument. I'll keep an open mind and keep my eye out for a new angle on this argument, but I haven't seen one so far.
I check for new topic proposals many times during the day. Any new topic proposal has a good chance of quick promotion.
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Message 290 of 326 (464275)
04-24-2008 2:04 PM


Moderator Request
As longtimers here are aware, EvC Forum works very hard at encouraging constructive discussion that actually gets somewhere. We try to avoid allowing discussion to become bogged down in distractions and extraneous issues.
Recently, several threads appear to have become somewhat stalled, this among them. If things don't improve soon I'll be issuing some moderator warnings and then suspensions. Please make it easy to distinguish between perpetrators from perpetratees.

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Message 297 of 326 (464293)
04-24-2008 4:25 PM
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04-24-2008 2:24 PM


Moderator Warning
antiLIE writes:
here we go again
Please either begin contributing constructively to the discussion, or stop posting.

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Message 326 of 326 (464510)
04-26-2008 7:19 AM


Closing Time
We're past the 300 message limit (obviously not a hard limit). I'd like to encourage someone to propose a thread over at [forum=-25] to continue the discussion, but slanted toward the current focus.

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