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Message 399 of 415 (514888)
07-13-2009 7:18 PM
Reply to: Message 397 by greentwiga
07-13-2009 6:45 PM


Re: hypothesis
" Saying, it could not have happened with God's guidance, is such a belief statement.
So If I say Santa made the Tooth Fairy from one of the Easter Bunny's llavicce bones you can only deny that on faith? Are you not allowed to consider the lack of confirming evidence for Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny or llavicce bones? It was the straw man that didn't have a brain, not the farmer who made it.
No one is claiming to know the steps, even approximately, that brought about life on Earth. If someone claims to know it is not an act of faith, it is an act of delusion. That you wish to equate faith with hypothesis in this way is desperate apologetics at best. It doesn't put faith in a good light.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.
Thomas Jefferson

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