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Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:26:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> You are confusing an overwhelming body of evidence that reduces the
> probablity of inaccuracy to virtually nothing with "faith".
Not in the least. You're taking people's word for it. "That's a picture of
the earth from a satellite. Here's Brazil." Proof? Only if you *believe* the
person. And that's faith-- at least in my book. Faith in that person's
credibility, and faith in the fact that you can accurately judge something's
plausibility. After all, if they showed you a picture of a bowl of oatmeal
while saying that, no matter how credible you thought they were, you'd
probably disbelieve them. And just because lots of different (yet still
secondhand) sources all agree is no grounds for 'proving' that they're
right. After all, lots of people always said that God exists, right? If 500
people you all knew and respected all relayed their experiences to you about
God, and you were the sort to find such information as being credible (I.E.
this was better than the best explanation you could have come up with
already) would you not take it on faith? Is this any different from proving
Brazil? The only way it differs (that I can see) is that YOU (specifically
you) are incapable of actually replicating the experiment. But that doesn't
amount to a hill of beans because I assume you take Brazil's existence on
faith WITHOUT going and visiting it, so you never checked to see that the
experiment was replicable. You only thought it to be so. And certainly I
agree that the fact that it's given as a non-replicable experiment lowers
the amount of faith *I* would place in such a proposal, BUT, that is not to
say that it is not true, or even that I won't still believe it, but less
assuredly so.
DaveE
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| (...) You can log in on a website and access sat photos. Ones detailed enough to identify your own car in a parking lot. Those satellites can then pick out cars in Brazil. If you have the infinite time, you can step your way from wherever you live (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) You are confusing an overwhelming body of evidence that reduces the probablity of inaccuracy to virtually nothing with "faith". You are also confusing reproducable results through a set experiment with no reproducable results that have no set (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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