Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:55:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020909135135.V1838-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <3D7CF633.187527E@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > > > > This is just what I am trying to get people to admit, that evolution > > > > requires tremendous leaps of faith. Now if you could see that it is also > > > > irrational, my job would be done. > > > > > > The problem with this idea is that we all freely admit that > > > evolution is a *theory*. > > > > That is completely irrational. Yet, to reject it would imply something > > that evolutionists just cannot bear to accept. > > Why is it "completely irrational"? All it amounts to is that we > are willing to acknowledge that we don't know everything. Because no matter how well you dress it up, it amounts to the following: 1) Something came from nothing. 2) Order came from disorder. 3) Life came from non-life. 4) Intelligence came from non-intelligence. 5) Morality came from the non-moral. To believe in evolution (at least the non-theistic variety) you have to believe that things turn into their opposites. This is quite a departure from the notion of "rational explanation." Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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