Hi, PapaTed. Welcome to EvC!
For your information, the post you responded to is 7 years old, and the person who posted it hasn't been here in a very long time.
PapaTed71 writes:
But he began to sully the garden of god with blasphemies which many intelligent and open-minded Shristians are willing to beleive that may have been in the propogation of reptilians to the ultimate bengs instead of the soon-to-be free-thinking mammals.
Why do you feel that God hates reptiles? There are 7000 species of "reptiles," and only 5400 species of mammals: He sure made a lot of them for someone who dislikes them.
I happen to think dinosaurs represent a grand and wondrous stage of life on Earth, and certainly do not ascribe their creation to Lucifer.
I think John agreed with me:
John 1:3 writes:
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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PapaTed71 writes:
While it seems very scientifically...
And, as shown by John 1:3, it also doesn't jive well with most people's interpretation of the Bible (certainly not mine, though I'm willing to admit that my ability to interpret scripture is very poor).
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PapaTed71 writes:
Why must you intellectuals wrap your scientifically justified robes around yourselfs and scoff at others?
I took the liberty of adding punctuation and capitalization for you here: I would greatly appreciate it if you did it yourself next time.
Yes, it's sad that many scientists are arrogant, but I think you'll find that arrogance is distributed just as widely among any group of people. Please try not to expect anything great out of us: we're still human, after all. But, that's really the beauty of it, in my mind: science is an amazing work, but it doesn't require particularly amazing people to do it, only people who are willing to do the work required.
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PapaTed71 writes:
I used to think scientists were the kinds of people who had infinite scope and capability of understanding but after interacting with them they are just as their religious counterparts they just have a different box in which they reside...
Again, you think too highly of us: we don't want your praise and your worship.
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PapaTed71 writes:
...[Scientists] just have a different box in which they reside whereas I try to reside in wonderous uneiverse created around us.
So, you feel that it's okay for you to put yourself above us, but not for us to put ourselves above you? I don't think that's very fair of you.
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You might also like to take a look at
this thread for a discussion about the word "reptiles," just as some side information.
Edited by Bluejay, : fixed my URL
-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
Darwin loves you.