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Thread #84992   Message #1584597
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
17-Oct-05 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
organised religious belief exists even amongst scientists

It does, but almost always in a form that says religion should be concerned with how we should live our lives, and leaves the how life works to science.

The concept of a Creator starting everything off is one thing, and is just as verfiable as any other explanation for the big bang, but the concept of a Creator who feels the need to tinker with here and there, now and again just doesn't fit the evidence we have.

You have to have a very special kind of faith to, for example, as a Geologist know this rock is 380 million years old, formed over thousands of years, from the scientific evidence, and also know that it was created 6000 years ago in one day.