On Thu, 12 May 2005 19:46:34 -0600, "Phil Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey Darren, >That was kind of mean-spirited. > >Let's see, if I believe in a God, I'm an inbred nitwit, but if I believe I didn't say that. I said that if you believe in a Young Earth you are an inbred nitwit. The push to move Intelligent Design into science classrooms is a thinly vieled attempt to bring biblical literalism/Young Earth Creationism into the classroom. If you are, indeed, a Young Earth Creationist, then I reinterate that I think you are a inbred nitwit. >Until we find a world that was created by bacteria+chance and those bacteria >learned to write and recorded the whole process for us it's all faith - >either way. It isn't "by chance". The mutations are random, and happen in every organism at every cell division-- the selection of which of those mutations succeed depends on how useful or harmful that mutation is to the new organism-- and, therefore, is NOT "chance". Plus, the fossil record is a cold, hard fact. And if you deny the validity of radioisotope testing that gives the ages of those fossils, then you also deny the validity of radioisotope testing on meteorites. The only "faith" involved in the issue is the "faith" that the laws of physics were the same in the past that they are in the present. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
