If either person does not agree that the Bible is absolutely true, the debate ceases and the discussion becomes useless.
Actually, I would say that the same is true if a person insists that the Bible is absolutely true. How can discussion proceed in that case?
Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
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M. Alan Kazlev