RE: Bible contradictions?
March 16, 2012 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 10:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You put that double standard on like a talisman don't you? You also seem to think that fraud within the scientific community is a bit more widespread than it is (and by a bit, I mean by orders of magnitude). It's very difficult to perpetuate a fraud in science, as it defers completely to evidence, and if you don't have it, or if you have misinterpreted it, someone can make a career out of criticizing both it and you for presenting it (or the lack thereof).
Compare that with faith, where no evidence is offered, none is expected, and in many ways you are actually discouraged from considering it if someone does go about the dirty business of looking for it in the first place (as is plainly the case with E by NS). Just-so stories may work for you, but they don't work for me Chip.
I'm wondering, btw, why you aren't keen on claiming E by NS as part and parcel of gods superpowers. That this god was so immensely powerful that it did not have to intervene, did not have to leverage a guiding hand. That would be a superpower right there, but only if you are willing to accept that E by NS occurred. So powerful, in fact, that it could get precisely what it wanted without actually having to do anything at all. That's a more confident and competent picture of god than the tinkerer and blunderer that you present. A god that got the vast majority of it's "designs" wrong, even though it also "designed" the environment that extinguished those forms of life, and then actively engaged in the destruction of what remains in disappointment of it's own efforts. That doesn't sound like much of a god, sounds like a human being (and not a particularly pleasant or clever one, at that).
Compare that with faith, where no evidence is offered, none is expected, and in many ways you are actually discouraged from considering it if someone does go about the dirty business of looking for it in the first place (as is plainly the case with E by NS). Just-so stories may work for you, but they don't work for me Chip.
I'm wondering, btw, why you aren't keen on claiming E by NS as part and parcel of gods superpowers. That this god was so immensely powerful that it did not have to intervene, did not have to leverage a guiding hand. That would be a superpower right there, but only if you are willing to accept that E by NS occurred. So powerful, in fact, that it could get precisely what it wanted without actually having to do anything at all. That's a more confident and competent picture of god than the tinkerer and blunderer that you present. A god that got the vast majority of it's "designs" wrong, even though it also "designed" the environment that extinguished those forms of life, and then actively engaged in the destruction of what remains in disappointment of it's own efforts. That doesn't sound like much of a god, sounds like a human being (and not a particularly pleasant or clever one, at that).
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