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Author Topic:   What evidence is needed to change a creationist
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Message 113 of 144 (466320)
05-14-2008 1:37 PM
Reply to: Message 109 by Buckfan328
05-13-2008 5:19 PM


I for one find your post rather refreshing.
Very few creos acknowledge at the outset that no evidence will ever convince them of anything that they find contrary to their religion interpretations. Instead, many or most will insist that they are being scientifically objective and the evidence supports what they believe.
In addition, very few creos acknowledge that there is even any evidence in support of evolution at all, much less that some of it is difficult for creationism to explain.
I also give you points for describing arguments of others while at the same time acknowledging that you have no basis for accepting the arguments other than the fact that someone sympathetic to your position made them.
Your admission that the bible trumps everything and your understanding that there's evidence against your position actually makes you one of the more reasonable creos I've come across.
I guess I have only one question for you. At the end you said,
quote:
Ultimately, science is fallible because scientists are fallible and I believe God's word to be infallible so when they seem to be in conflict I will of course go with the latter.
Have you considered the possibility that it's your interpretation of god's infallible word that might be wrong? After all, millions of people who believe in the same god that you do have no problem whatsoever with any aspect of the Theory of Evolution.

Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

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