Telling fact from fiction

[bennyboy]

Yes, so you need to see something first hand at least once in order to be able to believe that it is possible.   I don't see where a potential to go see it, makes a difference in if it is fiction or not.   But anyways, I now feel justified, in not just being skeptical of evolution, Sweden, and your post, but in calling them fiction.

Why? You can study fossils yourself. You can go to Sweden yourself, and you can read my post yourself. All these things are within either your frame of reference or within your potential frame of reference, and covering your ears and chanting "La la la" just means you don't want to confirm that which you would not like to see confirmed. The thing about evolution is that if there's a BETTER explanation of how species change over time, evolution will either be updated or dropped. There's no "thou shalt believe in evolution, or face an eternity of torment."

The potential to go see something very much matters. If a scientist says something I disbelieve, I can follow his tracks-- potentially. It is up to ME to confirm whether he's truthful or not. If a religious person (or text) says something I disbelieve, I cannot follow their tracks, no matter how much I would like to. I cannot go out and watch a man walk on water, or turn water into wine-- unless it's a Las Vegas performer.

Let me say one last thing about this. Disbelief in science is probably the most anti-theist thing you can do. If you believe that God has laid out the world, then refusing to learn about the world means denying part of the mind of God. If you believe that God has created the creatures of the Earth, then refusing to learn about evolution means that you'd rather dwell on the ideas of 1st-century Man than on the actual word of God as revealed in his creations, and as generously allowed for us to learn through the existence of fossils on His Earth.

Scientists, in their honest pursuit for understanding, are far closer to any God that exists than those who see science as the enemy. So to any Christian who has no interest in learning about the natural world, I can only ask-- how have you come to hate the Truth, and the God that created this Truth, so much?