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Author Topic:   Using the Bible as a Starting point for Scientific questions
crashfrog
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Message 24 of 44 (205321)
05-05-2005 3:01 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Jor-el
05-04-2005 2:02 PM


If I can't use the bible as a starting point to answer questions then how can there be a discussion?
Well, we (the evolutionists and scientists) can't use the Bible, nor any other religious text, as a starting point either.
How is that not fair?

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crashfrog
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Message 28 of 44 (205342)
05-05-2005 4:22 PM
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05-05-2005 3:53 PM


But you do it all the time if one cares to see where you have been posting.
In threads about the Bible, sure. Although that's always been in response to someone else using the Bible as a starting point.
In science threads? No, I've never used the Bible, nor any other religious text, as the starting point or foundation of an argument. It would be highly incorrect to assert that I have done so.
Like I said, we don't get to use the Bible, nor any religious text, as the starting point for our scientific arguments. Neither do you. How is that not fair?

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crashfrog
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Message 35 of 44 (205355)
05-05-2005 4:58 PM
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05-05-2005 4:36 PM


So you are saying that a christian easily accepts TOE as long as things are explained to him, and that that doesn't effect his beliefs in the slightest because both ceationism and TOE can work together.
That's certainly the only conclusion that can be drawn from the fact that most Christians accept the fundamental accuracy of the theory of evolution but also believe in a Creator God.
I have to apologise for my desbelief but if that were true the members of this forum would all be agreeing with one another and the debate would not exist.
If there were not those who understood neither the theory of evolution nor the Bible itself, then the debate wouldn't exist. The "debate", if it can even be called that, is between ignorance and those who oppose ignorance.

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