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No offense, but if there were legitimate rebuttals to the arguments of atheists, and to the scientific case for evolution, nobody would hold those positions.I appreciate your candor, and I'd be delighted to see churches adopt your views, but the result would be less believers, not more. The intellectual validity of atheism and the scientific validity of evolution have not ever been shown to be assailable except to those with a prior committment to belief, such as you had.

Well, atheists have a vocal and observable committment to rationalism.On the other hand, anti-intellectualism is a prominent and celebrated part of your Christianity. You yourself have provided links and quotes of Christians admonishing followers to have "childlike faith", in other words, to retreat from adult rationality.Your side makes no secret that Christianity isn't expected to make sense to its followers; simply that it's to be believed.So, I stand by my statements. If there were legitimate rebuttals to atheist positions, there wouldn't be many atheists.

Why? Seems like Christian fundamentalists have absolutely no problem dismissing anything unbelievers have to say.At any rate, do you really think it's possible for Christians to accurately portray the atheist arguments? I've seen how you people butcher evolution; I've got a few of your pamphlets sitting here on my desk.The church's teachers aren't going to get it right, and so when the college-age believer hears the arguments, and they're a lot more compelling than they remember, they're going to say "huh, I wonder what my church was trying to hide, exactly?"Look, you're just going to lose Christians to college. It's just going to happen, because a fair number of Christians entering college are Christian because they don't know any better; because that's the only religion they've ever really seen, the only way they know how to live.An expansion of knowledge and opportunity, of education, is going to pull a lot of those people away. It's just going to happen. Exposing them to that knowledge earlier is just going to pull them away earlier. This is what I was talking about to Randman, about Christian anti-intellectualism. "Damn that uppity book-larnin!"

But that's what science is.

There's no cramming necessary, and quite frankly, you would know that if you'd ever set foot into a biology classroom.Let's be honest. Your constant and hilarious biological blunders make it absolutely clear that you have absolutely no basis for concluding what you do. Well, let's try it. Open a thread and we'll do just that. Or is this going to be one more of your insupportable claims?

I did. Why do you think I stopped being a creationist and became an evolutionist? Scientists can't be ordinary people? What do you think they are, Martians?Why do you hate scientists so much, Faith?

Does it make sense to you, that people could get accurate results from a theory that's just wishful thinking?How does that work? If we live in a universe where theories that are just wishful thinking are just as useful as the theories that actually describe reality, then what's the point? If any old made-up thing is as useful as the truth, then what does it matter what you or I believe about the world? Does "right" or "wrong" even have meaning in such a world?