(September 29, 2013 at 8:28 am)John V Wrote: Funny that you guys say that we shouldn't accept testimonial evidence, then you expect me to accept your guarantee. I don't. Show me others saying the same things I've said and we can discuss the merits.
Are you saying that followers of other religions aren't thinking that theirs is the religion that has the most evidence? Seriously? They'd follow a religion despite acknowledging that others have more evidence?
Oh right, you're just deflecting because you don't want to answer the question. I understand. But fine: here's what I could be bothered to find.
I look forward to your dismissive response wherein you claim that because this quote isn't precisely the same as yours, this person somehow believes that christianity has more evidence than the religion he's a part of.
Quote:That's interesting - you really believe we've got nothing but confirmation from genetics and the fossil record? What exactly do you mean by that, and what evidence do you base that on?
Here's human chromosome 2, evidence for human common ancestry with apes in genetics. Here's a list of observed speciation events. Here's a list of transitional forms from the fossil record.
All on their own enough to prove evolution to be occurring, but if I wanted to, I could also mention bacteria, nylonase, or any number of other confirmatory concepts. That's the kind of evidence I base my statements on, and it's exactly the kind of evidence that no creationist could ever hope to provide or rebut.
Quote:What did your family breed these dogs into? I'm guessing...more dogs.
And here we have proof that you're either dishonest, or don't understand evolution in the slightest. Clearly, you're in a good place to be arguing against it, not even understanding its basic mechanisms.

Quote:If you don't accept abiogenesis completely, you do accept it partially. My Christian faith isn't perfect, so apparently I accept Christianity partially. Seems like semantics at this point.
Except christianity has no evidence, in the sense that abiogenesis does. You don't get to pretend that anything you've got matches up to, say, the results of the Miller-Yurey experiment. They're not even close.
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