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telyni

Comments on my previous post

Feb 08, 2005 23:09

This started out as a response to what darekana wrote in a comment on my previous post, but it was getting really long for a comment, so I decided to just post it as a separate entry.

( His comment, for continuity )

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crschmidt February 8 2005, 14:44:10 UTC

Pssst: hard to tell where your response starts and his/hers ends on the entry page. Might want to put an in between them for clarity, or somethin.

crschmidt February 8 2005, 14:45:23 UTC

After which I see that 1. it's his, and 2. it's got quotes. I missed 'em the first time around though. Ah well.

darekana February 8 2005, 15:39:56 UTC

Well first I must confess that I'm no where near an expert on evolution (I'm a linguist, not a biologist ^_~).

That said, I'd be interested to know what evidence you're thinking of. After all, I can't argue against it if I don't know what it is. ^_~ Quite often what people put forward as "evidence disproving evolution" is really just evidence against the theory of natural selection - the predominant view of how evolution happens. (Regarding the "irreducibly complex" example, http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB200.html has an informative "rebuttal" to that argument - I haven't looked up the studies cited yet though ( ... )

I tried to keep this short, but... aerorei February 9 2005, 13:10:42 UTC

Well, I don't think that being limited in our capacity to understand a situation is the same as being limited in our capacity to understand God's ways of doing things in that situation, but I may be trying to make too fine a distinction. Regardless, aside from the fact that the quote's not in the Bible, I only opposed it because the idea of a higher power mysteriously causing living things to appear through a drawn-out and illogical process like evolution is contrary to what I believe, but that's just my opinion. I guess if you like the idea of a higher power that's just "playing around" with creating to see what he can get when he puts proteins together, it works, but that'd be an awfully poor god to put your faith in. Why settle for a substandard god? I like this verse: "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well." (Psalms 139:14 ( ... )

Re: I tried to keep this short, but... darekana February 9 2005, 13:42:35 UTC

> I guess if you like the idea of a higher power that's just "playing ( ... )

Re: I tried to keep this short, but... aerorei February 11 2005, 04:36:43 UTC

"I believe that, fundamentally, we can claim to know very little about God."
Yeah, that's a big point we disagree on too, since as you said, your view doesn't allow for things like the Bible. From my point of view, we really can claim to know quite a bit about God, and part of that is from the Bible, and part is from personal experience. But I can see why you think what you do, not having either personal experience or faith.

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