> gMoney wrote: > Which one is crazier than the next? Who can say! All hail the FSM..... >
This argument is thousands of years old - it's science against religion by those who see the 2 as opposed. I've spoken with an IDer or 2 and here's their problem: "genesis says that blah, blah, blah, and therefore man didn't come from monkeys." Ignoring the misunderstanding of lineage, all they're basically saying is that what it says literally in the Bible is not meshing with evolution and, therefore, they're siding with the Bible. My response is that, if you're being intellectually honest, you either have to say that the Bible is a flawed book of Man containing translated stories about God, or you need to learn Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew before you can even begin to make another claim. I also like to pull out the fact of how the Bible says that pictures of yourself and family are sinful due to vanity and the fact that they're "graven images", the only purpose of which is to worship yourself; a big Bible no-no. Anyway all this shows to me is that Man has not yet figured out how to merge spirituality, religion, and science. -------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Personal Philosophy Below -------------------------------------------------------- What I know for a fact is that I have an intellect and can reason. If God is my creator then He gave me these abilities and I don't believe he did that only to tell me to ignore them and "have faith". He expects me to use them. The whole "have faith" line is cop out and exit ramp for intellectually lazy people who don't want to continue to seek The Truth as the apostle Thomas instructed them to do. "Have faith" is the Church's mechanism to excuse people from work since most people would quit if that mechanism didn't exist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214355 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
