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Originally posted by Superman
Y'know, I think several things when I see fish on the back of peoples' cars. I expect Christians to display their views this way...because their belief is exciting, and also because they are specifically directed to share their joy with others.
But I what would motivate someone to place a Darwin fish on their car. Sure, maybe they're just argumentative *******s. Or maybe they are very very proud of their superior intellect, and want everyone to see how smart they are.
And the other thought I have is that, since science seems to be best defined as "that discipline or field of endeavor which is regularly and repeatedly and frequently so surprized by new discoveries that their belief systems need near-daily re-writes," I wonder what kinds of looks we'd see on their faces (the Darwin fish folks) when they find that there is substantial truth to the creation story. Sure, I also am confident that "natural selection" is a mechanism at work in nature. But "evolution" in the sense of a theory that negates creationism.....certainly steps way way outside the data. There is almost no question in my mind that some folks are going to have egg on their faces.
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The overall principles of science deduce to the same result: the earth is round, it is billions of years old, and man has evolved from an older being that resembled primates. Details change; not the overall A-to-B theory.
Conversely, where are your facts to the contrary (creationism)? Have you any as tangible as science itself? No, you don't except for fictionalized accounts by apostles and others - i.e. the bible.
I find it highly interesting that you stayed away from the threads that announced a newly-found but extinct humanoid species recently located in Java (I think). Did you fear this as just another step in the direction of evolution, and felt it best to sit that one out?
Is "fear" the key word in any of these discussions?
But more alarming is your attitude to people with Darwin fish on their bumpers and decklids. Appalling, it seems, that sight is to you. To me, you hint toward intolerance, and represent another indication of the inflexibility of religion, which to date has only served to perpetuate the instability (read: war)we have on our (round) earth today.
BTW: how can you be
against Bush's war in Iraq, when one of the war's crowning desires is to influence the Muslim world with Christianity? After all, "God" told Bush to do this, so there has to be a Christain element in the Iraq campaign.