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7th July 2002, 10:03 PM
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Hey, just wondering. Could anyone lead me to some kind of survey figures or something else to verify these proportions? |
7th July 2002, 10:58 PM
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7th July 2002, 11:05 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Evolution is a religious faith system in itself. Incompatable with Christianity. I dont care what Hugh ross says.
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7th July 2002, 11:14 PM
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Evolution is a religious faith system in itself.
Can you explain further how it is? I don't understand. |
7th July 2002, 11:30 PM
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Evolution is a religious faith system in itself. Incompatable with Christianity. I dont care what Hugh ross says.
Huh. Could you explain what the cosmological tenets of this belief system are? For instance, what does this religious faith teach about the question of human good and evil? Does it express a clear opinion on whether or not there's an afterlife?
I'm not exactly an evolutionary biologist, but I don't think any of these questions have ever been answered by the theory of evolution; this makes it very hard for me to see how it's a "religious faith system". |
8th July 2002, 01:47 AM
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I haven't seen anything concrete recently, but I do know that rejection of evolution is almost entirely exclusive to the U.S., Christians elsewhere tend to think we're pretty kooky over here.
You "know?" You still haven't given us the source for this privileged information.
(Of course, it only matters if truth is now determined by polls, but I'd still like to know where you're getting this fascinating information that you're so certain about.) |
8th July 2002, 02:50 AM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Back on topic. I'm lead to believe that Catholic's accept evolution, does anyone know the portion of Christians they make up? Are their any protestant churches that have officially recognised evolution? |
8th July 2002, 12:02 PM
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Back on topic. I'm lead to believe that Catholic's accept evolution, does anyone know the portion of Christians they make up? Are their any protestant churches that have officially recognised evolution?
Catholics? Generally its accepted that they're the plurality... Mormons, however, dispute that, claiming they have more recruits... though, I know several alleged "mormons" who stopped going to church years ago and refuse to answer any contact the church makes them... I heard about one guy who actually had to sue to get his name removed from the Mormon roster... so, I'm guessing Catholics still have more "actual" numbers... though the recent bout of abuse in america may have cut their numbers some...
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8th July 2002, 01:49 PM
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And, as I have stated many times before, evolution has about as much ties to a religion, as indoor plumbing. This topic is discussed at lenght, in another thread.
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8th July 2002, 01:49 PM
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Reps: 64,647 (power: 108) | | Originally posted by npetreley
You "know?" You still haven't given us the source for this privileged information.
(Of course, it only matters if truth is now determined by polls, but I'd still like to know where you're getting this fascinating information that you're so certain about.)
Why? I don't care if you come to believe it, and indeed, I think it's pretty clear that you would never accept any result that you hadn't previously gotten to be emotionally comfortable with, no matter what the evidence is.
Truth is, indeed, not determined by polls. No number of people who believe creation "science" nonsense and repeat old lies will make it any more plausible as science.
It's worth noticing that, in a dozen or more attempts to get "evidence for creation", no one has provided any; all anyone ever does is try to show "problems" with evolution, which are inevitably a result of misquotes, misunderstanding, or just plain falsehoods like the Chinese etymology thing. | | |
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