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Phat
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Message 26 of 355 (617143)
05-26-2011 6:34 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by frako
05-25-2011 4:00 PM


Logic scares many creo believers away
frako writes:
I dont think bias is the problem i think PRATTS are a problem so many creo ideas have been refuted a gazzilion times that it is better for their belief if they dont visit such sites.
I am a believer in God (Christian one, whatever that means )and quite frankly I would rather be at a site where people disagree with me. I can learn so much more this way. (If I would ever let go of my bias)


'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
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Phat
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Message 173 of 355 (617756)
05-31-2011 6:35 AM
Reply to: Message 169 by GDR
05-31-2011 12:55 AM


Re: Ok, I'll give my opinion ...
Thats a great link, GDR!
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Now, you'll gather that I'm a person who wants to take science absolutely seriously. It tells us a great deal which is of value and importance concerning what the physical world is like, its structure and process and history. Science is extremely successful, but it is successful because it is also very modest in its ambitions. It seeks to ask and answer only a certain limited set of questions about the world. It confines itself to impersonal and testable kinds of knowledge.
Questions about a Creator are in my opinion personal, and not always logical or supportable. This does notmake the discussion irrelevant.
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Religion is concerned with asking, and seeking the answers to, deeper questions about the world in which we live -- questions of meaning and purpose and destiny. It moves us from the largely impersonal world of scientific knowledge, to the world of personal encounter, with all the risk and ambiguity and necessary commitment that's involved in that. Religion is concerned with the type of inquiry in which testing has to give way to trusting.
This forum has seen a diminished response from Biblical Creationists who limit themselves philosophically, as well as an increase from many atheists who in my opinion also limit themselves philosophically in regards to considering a Creator, never mind creationism.
The forum is, however, only irrelevant to those who expect answers rather than continued dialogue and more questions.

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