Glad you decided to add to our diversity. We have a wide variety of forums for your debating pleasure, but I warn you it can become habit forming.
While the title of this thread is "The Foundations of the Debate", the opening post (OP),
Message 1, had very specific questions.
Apart from the quest for knowledge, why are we discussing this?
(by "this" I mean creation/evolution)
I've heard many evolutionists
say that there is no reason for arguing about creation and evolution
because the theory of evolution does not deny the existence of God.
Is this claim valid? If it is, why does this website exist?
I don't feel that your posts are clearly addressing those questions and are starting to lead the topic astray.
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