Re: An atheist professor & his student


"oasysco" <wilderkommen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So pardon me if I don't bow a knee to a couple of generations of great
thinkers who want to create a model for me to believe in when they
can't even understand the simple electro-chemical system they wear for
their entire lives.

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This is faultly logic, that your auto mechanic doesn't know about plumbing
doesn't mean you shouldn't trust him to understand why your car's brakes are
grabbing. So you know a doctor who can't cure his own cancer, how does that
translate to paleontologists and biologists and so on being untrustworthy on
the subject of evolution?

Nobody is asking you believe in evolution as if it explains all things, why
do you insist or depicting this one branch of science as if it is presented
as an all-encompassing religion? Evangelicals might want to see it that
way, they seem fond of interpreting things as an attack on their faith and
their values. But that doesn't mean scientists have the same outlook,
they're primarily interested in proving or disproving such theories, not
worshipping them. Of course sometimes there is dogma in science, they get
things wrong and sometimes it takes the equivalent of a revolution to make
them realize it. But at least the scientific process inevitably results in
dogma being challenged, somewhere there is always somebody testing the
theories and even the laws. Meanwhile, over on the other side of town there
are folks who insist that every word in the Bible is literally true and if
that requires them to believe Methuselah lived to the age of 969, well then
that's what happened and those dinosaur fossils probably are of animals that
ol' Methuselah used to see when he was a boy. Sorry, if I want to know
whether or not there is a God I'll ask the theologians, if I want to know
about why animal species change over time I think a biologist is a better
bet.


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