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Thread #153464   Message #3597732
Posted By: Bill D
02-Feb-14 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
"...because his phd is only in chemistry that he is not entitled to write on other disciplines..."

He is entitled to write on anything, as long as he uses the data & standards OF that discipline to guide his thoughts.

As to other PhDs... I don't see any specific article you suggested, Pete.... at least not in the last 50 posts. The articles I read were found by ME.

"...I would say that your belief in evolutionism is just as much a religious position as his. you cite all those disciplines as validating and interrelated to evolution yet your area is in none of those either. "

We have gone over this 20 times, Pete. I cannot BE an expert in all those areas any more than YOU can... but I am qualified to analyze and comment on logic, reason and forms of argument. You have agreed for several years that you have NOT had the relevant years of study, yet you consistently attempt to use your **belief** to validate your acceptance of the writers at Creation.com as 'authority', when all they are doing is using THEIR beliefs to create arguments for YOUR beliefs to grab onto.

   My respect for the work done by a thousand scientists & analysts regarding evolution is not a **BELIEF**! The very word belief exists to describe positions held in spite of other evidence or when there is no evidence one way or another. I accept the conclusions of scientists who DO have qualifications in various other disciplines because they do not act on mere 'belief'.... they measure, study, compare, analyze and integrate all sorts of data and put forth opinions to the best of their knowledge. When Sarfati and others in YEC groups argue against mainstream science, they are starting with belief and assuming that any scientific opinion which does not agree is somehow flawed and must involve a mistake somewhere.

I have offered you many times the 'out' for belief in a Supreme Being as one who kick-started the universe... but to decide when this happened or how it has proceeded or what the data & evidence show MUST be left to those who use other sources than old manuscripts & superstition.