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Thread #100409   Message #2017391
Posted By: Bill D
05-Apr-07 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
Wolfgang left a lot to read just above, but he said a lot, also. It bears re-reading, and there are several points which are very often misunderstood.

Read carefully the part about the difference between a 'theory' and a 'fact', and how changes in various details about some facts can lead to the mistaken notion that the fact (for example, evolution) is 'only' a theory. We, and all the other biological entities we see DID evolve...only the details are hazy.

   Other 'beliefs' ARE only theories, as we have no way, so far, to test their claims. If someone wishes to believe, as Wolfgang notes, that evolution IS "God's method", there is very little to say about it...except as I mentioned somewhere else about a program I heard on the radio..(paraphrased)."isn't it interesting that God chose as his method of creation, a process that proceeds as if HE were not there!"

I don't expect my comments...or Wolfgangs, or Mrrzy's, or Amos's, or Frank Hamilton's,...or anyone else's to cause any committed believers to change their basic beliefs....but I do hope they will come a little closer to putting 'beliefs', 'facts', 'theories', and 'truths' into proper perspective regarding many issues.