(August 19, 2018 at 12:19 pm)robvalue Wrote:(August 18, 2018 at 4:46 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Common misconception. Plenty of theists accept evolution™. Which sounds like evolution, but will be rife with caveats and novel use of common seeming language.
They accept it, but don't properly understand it.
Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Ken Miller understand evolution probably better than anyone here on this forum, and they are both practicing Christians. And I don't think their acceptance is rife with caveats, or using novel definitions of common language.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
