A Common Misconception among Evolutionists Re: Creation Science

[Don Kresch]

On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:06:48 -0700, in alt.atheism, Ray Lanthier
<rlanthier at earthlink.net> etched in the space-time continuum

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>Don Kresch wrote:
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>> On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 18:44:45 -0700, in alt.atheism, Ray Lanthier
>> <rlanthier at earthlink.net> etched in the space-time continuum
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>>         Oh Ray--what ng are you posting from? There's a shitload of bgs in the
>> header, and it would be nice to get rid of those who really don't need this. I
>> and many others are in alt.atheism.
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>posting FROM? I am postint TO only one ng at a time.

alt.agnosticism,
alt.atheism
,alt.earth.system.science
,alt.info-science
,alt.philosophy
,alt.philosophy.debate,
be.science,
bionet.biology
,bionet.general
,cn.bbs.sci.philosophy
,fido7.science,
fj.soc.pseudo-science
,k12.ed.science,
man.freenet
,man.gene

	Those are the newsgroups this is going to. Learn to use Communicator's
newsreader. (How did I know it? I have the world's best newsreader: Forte
Agent. I can see all the header stuff if I want.)


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>> >Jessica M. Wolfman wrote:
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>> >> >Hence, faith in the senses. Faith in reason. Faith in the order of the universe.Faith is evidence of
>> >> >a higher order than physical perception.
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>> >> Uh, not, not faith. Unless you have reason to believe that your senses
>> >> are failing you, the correct word is "confedence", and that's not
>> >> faith.
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>> >Faith is not much different from confidence.
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>>         It's far different, actually. Confidence requires some evidence. Faith
>> decries evidence.
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>False.

	Faith: belief without evidence or in spite of overwhelming evidence to the
contrary.

	You were saying?
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>> > It is proceeds from a source that is extra-sensory and arational.
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>>         Then we can never have faith, since it is extra-sensory, and we should not
>> give it credence, since it is irrational.
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>>         You've just destroyed your own argument.
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>arational not irrational.

	My pardon. Still, if it is without rationality, it is IRrational.


Don
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