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Author Topic:   Darwin's Greatest Mistake?
Bushido
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Message 20 of 24 (128073)
07-27-2004 12:17 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by jar
05-15-2004 10:51 AM


Faith is on Both Sides of the Double Edged Sword
I am, in fact, a Christian. But unlike most Christians i beleive that secular resources need to be studied in depth. I try to read as much as i can from Christian scientists and secular scientists, but i question EVERYTHING I read. I find Darwin, Malthus and Lineas' theories to be very intriguing. But don't take everything you read as undeniable truth. God gave us a mind, so we must use it to our full extent. QUESTION EVERYTHING!
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They are insecure and threatened, and go to rediculous lengths, making all kinds of illogical assumptions, just to avoid being only Just Another Primate.
Now I, myself, am many things, but insecure and threatened I am not. You see, if everyone just studied each side of the argument equally, they would see that BOTH evolutionists and creationists have well backed scientific arguements which, in their purity, are not illogical assumptions. Likewise, BOTH evolutionists and creationists have to depend on their own faith to a certain extent.
Science has only taught us so much. Creationists must rely on their applications of scientific fact and their faith that God, the Creator, created something from nothing. Evolutionists, as well, depend on their interpretation of scientific fact applied to their theory, but also must require a certain amount of faith within their belefief evolution (chance) has created something out of nothing. I think it takes as much faith after looking at the mathematical probability of a fluxuation causing subatomic particles to collide and BANG! life is created as it does to beleive that an omnipotent being said SNAP! life is created. As the Creator is God to the theistic, chance is god to the atheistic.
Let's face it. Science has not yet proven evolution to be undeniably true, just like the creationist theory has not been proven undeniable true through science.
Both sides of this arguement require a degree of faith. It is impossible to beleive in either theory without this.
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They couch their arguments in terms of being anti-evolution, but under it all, I believe their real point is that they do not want to be just another APE.
Now a TRUE Christian, one who strives too be Christ-like, would truly be offened at this statement since a true Christian seeks a life of humility. Being associated ancestraly with any primate would be to high of a position of purity since apes rarely kill each other or abort their own children which human beings seem so able and willing to do. Unfortunately, not all who CLAIM to be Christian exhibit this humble quality. So, I would have to say that your above statement is partially correct.

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