Hatton wrote: > - Those that believe that the universe began with a bang and > followed an > evolutionary course that some weak-minded people think was led by a > divine being, but since there's so much empirical evidence > showing that > man came from apes and that dinosaurs roamed the earth and no > physical > evidence evidence for the divine intervention so there is no opposing > argument.
This is just a quibble on my part, but our evolving from apes/monkeys/chimpanzees is incorrect. We evolved beside them. Homo Sapiens diverged from the other primates about 5 to 10 millions years ago. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:37 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Evolution and Education > > > > There's is a need in people to believe in something. > > > Even those who believe in evolution despite its problems > > > have faith; in evolution. Even atheists have faith. They > > > believe that there is no God/spiritual/etc. and they they > > > are 'free-er' then everyone else. The faith in God, the > > > faith in science, the faith in nothing. It's all a needed > > > part of humanity. > > > I think the biggest addendum to this would be to point out the > difference in believeing in something and having something > proven beyond > a shadow of a doubt to you. There are four camps in the > Evolution/Creationism issue: > > - Those that believe that the world was created by God in 7 days and > think that the evolutionists are delisional. > > - Those that believe that the world was created by God, but what the > Bible refers to as 7 days might have taken a bit longer than > what we see > as "days" and that the 4.3 billion years are probably > included in there > somewhere. > > - Those that believe that the world followed a path of evolution that > only started being documented after 4.3 billion years and the > Bible is a > guestimate that sums up what a divine being would have done in 6 days > with a break at the end. > > - Those that believe that the universe began with a bang and > followed an > evolutionary course that some weak-minded people think was led by a > divine being, but since there's so much emprirical evidence > showing that > man came from apes and that dinosaurs roamed the earth and no > physical > evidence evidence for the divine intervention so there is no opposing > argument. > > .. actually there might be more, but there's your generalization :) > It's rather obvious in some cases where different people stand. > > Hatton > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
