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Thread #153464   Message #3605065
Posted By: GUEST,An Actual Scientist
26-Feb-14 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Steve Shaw,
I suspect that we disagree on just about nothing, except perhaps a quibbling difference on the meaning and use of the word "belief".
Epistemologically speaking (and rather butchering Plato), belief is synonymous with knowledge if the belief is "true" in the sense that the "believer" has reasonable and plausible evidence to support such belief. In that sense, pete's belief is not knowledge, but I am comfortable saying that I believe in evolution. I have seen plenty of evidence.

pete-
Here is the test of whether our beliefs are equivalent.
If you show me a trilobite and a mammal in the same rock formation, I will abandon my current "belief" in evolution, and adjust my beliefs to fit this new evidence.
Now, what would you need to see to make you abandon your belief in YEC?
Without a simple direct answer to this question, it is really pointless (for anyone) to have this discussion with you.