Science vs. Religion: (Chapter 4) (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, July 04, 2011, 06:53 (4687 days ago) @ xeno6696

Okay, I take part of that back... maybe it would have been useful to know me back when you wrote this. -On page 93... you write "I have presented this digression on evolution to clearly indicate to you that evolution is a theory, not fact, and there are all sorts of holes and inconsistencies in what is generally presented in schools and to the public."-However, in the next paragraph you write "... I believe the process of evolution actually happened,[emphasis added] while proposing that the mechanisms theorized by Darwin are not the way evolution has occurred."-So...-Which is it? To me, it seems like you stopped at the end of the paragraph where the first quote lives, probably after reading a nasty comment about religious people being stupid by Dawkins, then took a day or two off and then sat down to write the second. -Evolution IS a fact; we started with simple bacteria and ended up to where we're at today. In your own book you have already stated several times an implicit belief that evolution happened... simple to more complex.-So its a fact. -Later in paragraph 2, "It is the interpretation of the causes of events that should be under debate." -So its an open and shut case for you. Evolution happened. In your own words, evolution is a fact.-However, that first quote... is careless. It IS Behe and Dembski and even Hovind all over again...-You seem caught in two worlds with these quotes (on the same page.) -I can say more, but I think I'll wait until you can talk about this more formally.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"