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Thread #26008   Message #310018
Posted By: Amos
01-Oct-00 - 11:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Creation v Evolution
Subject: RE: BS: Creation v Evolution
The thing about this stupid argumnet that always ends up making absolutely no sense to me is this. Given that there are more than 2 billion creative individuals on this planet, in various states of disrepair, just counting the ones who are operating meat bodies, why in hell would anyone assume that creation as a component of reality or the driving force behind the existence of All-that-is or any part thereof should be attribtuable to just one pointof view or one spiritual entitiy?

You have to take due care not to get tangled up in the identification between "Creationism" as a fundamentalist Bible-based doctrine and any other model which includes creative powers of any sort into the ontology of things. One of them seems to map a lot closer to observed data than the other. 'Course that's just common sense, which never did stand up real well to revealed Truth. Sigh....

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