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Re: paleonet YEC&DinoBlood

While I understand and respect that position it has the inevitable tendency to just fuel the fire with these Evangelicals with it's ambiguity.  The Catholic position is routinely used by our advocates to demonstrate that there is no problem with science and Christianity and therefore it is a non-issue.  Why in the world would you want to deliver a slap in the face to people who are on your side.  You don't have to believe anything but it doesn't take more than common sense to figure out who is going to make the best bedfellow in this debate.  Do you really want to lose the debate over pride?  This is serious.  These people have the manpower and money to seriously jeopardize science education in America and they mean business.  We may think that their position is a joke but they are not kidding.  They are frighteningly serious and if we are not careful, they just might win.  There's some food for thought.
 
 
Michael J. Kishel
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: paleonet YEC&DinoBlood

In a message dated 11/1/2005 4:21:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, mike@houseofshred.net writes:
Personally I don't have a problem at all being a Christian and a
scientist.  I have found in my career that if you believe in God then
science is even more interesting.  Obviously it would be because the
universe is incomprehensibly amazing in every respect.  If you attribute it
as it is in reality to one omnipotent God then how could that do anything
but strengthen your faith.  Anyway, one man's perspective.
I find the universe incomprehensibly amazing enough without the God hypothesis. But my position is that the God hypothesis is a postulate: you may append it to any belief system (e.g., God or any number of gods exist and have properties x,y,z, etc.), or leave it out (i.e., be an agnostic), or append its negation (i.e., be an atheist: no God or gods exist)--and it is as pointless and time-wasting to debate or go to war over the merits of these different religious belief systems as it is pointless and time-wasting to debate or go to war over the merits of Euclidean, Riemannian, projective, and Lobachevskyian geometries.

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