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Re: Why not Both?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:51:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
I didn't really want to step into the evolutionary debate as it's so much
plowed ground, but there's just something about speaking your mind that's
just irrisistable once in a while :)

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
Dave - don't get upset - I just thought that your posting was about joining
the 2 lines of thought together. That has been considered already. My point • is
precisely that.  I'm not attempting to debunk it here...

You asked, "Why not both?", and I responded with a non-scientific answer. I
provided a philosphical answer.  Surely that's ok within the limits of how
_I_
want to answer here?  I'm reserving scientific evidence for the other
threads - rather than repeat myself in different threads.

No no-- you responded scientificially:
"While it is intellectually stimulating, it misses the scientific evidence for
creation that is indeed consistant with the Biblical account - a literal 7-day
creation."

And THEN you stated the philosophy as derived FROM the scientific:
"Yes, God could have done anything He wanted - then why say He did something
different?"

The reason you were given is BASED on the scientific-- NOT the
philosophical. Why say He did it differently than the Bible seems to say?
Because what the Bible says doesn't mesh with science. Hence, the question
becomes can we re-interpret the Bible to be in accordance with evolution?
The question assumes already that we're accepting the scientific principle
already as valid.

That's stating an assumption- "what the Bible says doesn't mesh with science"
I dispute that - and I will present evidence in the other threads that support
that claim.

-Jon



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  Re: Why not Both?
 
(...) ? Lemme rephrase what I think Dave! was saying: 1. Given that evolution appears to have happened 2. Given that we cannot disprove creationism may have happened Can we say that both may be true, hence avoiding the need for further dispute? And (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Why not Both?
 
I didn't really want to step into the evolutionary debate as it's so much plowed ground, but there's just something about speaking your mind that's just irrisistable once in a while :) (...) (I'm assuming that you mean "it" to be the scientific (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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