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Thread #152125   Message #3571192
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Oct-13 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Darwin was in the unenviable position of having to persuade a sceptical scientific community and potentially hostile religious forces that evolution is a self-evident fact, even before the explanation of it that the theory provides, and he knew full well that it was. The next step was the articulation of his theory. A theory that has subsequently provided, as science advances, a persuasive explanation of how evolution happens. He doubted at many junctures the efficacy of his theory, honest scientist that he was, but not the fact of evolution. You are seriously confused about this but you refuse to abandon the somewhat rickety construction that you desperately need in order to stay at odds with me. Weird. And obsessive. Not looking good, Snailo.

Stu: Although we can't say for 100% evolution is true, we can say it's as near a dammit that it has occurred and is occurring.

You: Fine by me but that is fundamentally different from saying it is true.

So you're saying there there is a possibility that evolution doesn't happen. Poor thing.