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Thread #142452   Message #3326093
Posted By: John P
20-Mar-12 - 11:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Uh, hate to tell you this, folks, but declaring well-known scientific facts to be true is not the same as declaring the Bible to be true (a bit of fallacious reasoning there?). I know, I know, no scientist would ever, blah, blah, blah, I'm not a scientist and don't pretend to talk like one. For me, saying that gravity and evolution exist is like saying the sky is blue. There's a big pile of evidence in favor and none opposed. Just imagine that I've put in all those qualifiers. While I am certainly aware of them, I see no need to use them in everyday conversation.

Also, out-of-context snippets don't tell us much about what the person being quoted was saying. It's a waste of searching, cutting and pasting time. Many of us use a variety of conversational gambits to make our points; irony, humor, sarcasm, or just having fun with words could all produce snippets that could be made to seem to mean the opposite of what was being said if taken out of context.