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.. You see in my doctrine it states that if you do not believen Christ Jesus as having been on earth, and was crucified to death and than rose again three days later, than I can conclude that you have been deceived and so I do not put much merit in your arguments if you fall in that category.
OK, Nimlore - lets have a proper look at this shall we?
Firstly, since I do believe that Our Lord became incarnate, was crucified, died and was buried, and rose again on the third day, you can't use this to ignore the points I make, which, scientifically, are by and large exactly the same as those made by non-believing scientists. This, in turn, strongly implies that Christian belief doesn't actually have any effect whatsoever on the validity of one's scientific statements.
Secondly, it's clear that you associate Christian belief with creationism. Well, whatever floats your boat. But please don't try to make it compulsory for the rest of us, there's a good chap. Your association of faith with Biblical literalism puts an intellectual stumbling block in front of people. And then you start stamping your little foot that people can't just throw their brains away and become YECs. You effectively disrail any attempt to make the Faith credible at an intellectual level.
[This message has been edited by Karl, 11-04-2002]
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