Evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 17:52 (5596 days ago) @ dhw


> *** Matt (and George), to save another post, how about: The theory is compatible with belief in a conscious designer, but not with the Creationist account of the history of life? - From the standpoint of a logician, I can derive your statement from my example of a "continuum" of theistic thought. - On the question of God there are no other alternatives: Belief, mixed belief, suspended belief, complete denial. - Making your statement into more of an axiom doesn't really serve any purpose. It's a well-established proposition, based on that set of axioms I put forth. I'm a systems-builder so in my view anything that can be derived doesn't need to be stated axiomatically. - I *completely* understand that you don't want to be grouped in with creationists, but "conscious designer" is still a euphemism for a God of some kind, be it via panentheism or process philosophy. Not the god of Abraham, mind, but one that challenges creationists on theological grounds. It is still theism, just with an unwritten theology based upon your agnosticism. - I see nothing wrong with this picture at all. I don't know why you care to argue it. - EDITED

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