| Baroque_Dude said: You got muddled. I explain it all in my posts. Read them again. You're the only user that is arguing with me because "you said that he said, but you said what you're now saying that you don't said, etc.". Others are arguing with me because of what I said, so I think that, although not sharing my opinion, they understood my point. Read my posts again, I don't want to go in circles. Thank you. |
That argument is over a whole different set of posts.
I've reviewed the posts. I still have the same problem with what you've said.
How did you not contradict yourself when you made the statements I refer to in the edit?
"Well, I "believed in" highwaystar101, he mentioned that." ("that" referring to my post "And at what point exactly did the Pope say it's OK to "believe in evolution"?")
vs.
"- highwaystar101 indeed quoted the Pope.
"- The Pope said that both elements in discussion, here, are compatible.
"- I criticized what the Pope said.
"That's it."
("That's it" excluding the possibility that you could have been talking about the Pope condoning "believing IN evolution" instead of evolution theory merely not being contradictory to Christian teaching (i.e. 'the two are compatible').)
So, please explain where I went wrong in the above.
You know, although the above response works, I have a more direct one.
--"And at what point exactly did the Pope say it's OK to "believe in evolution"?"
--"Well, I "believed in" highwaystar101, he mentioned that."
--"He didn't say that the Pope said that the ideas in those theories were something Christians could put faith in, just that the theories did not contradict Christianity."
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"- highwaystar101 indeed quoted the Pope.
"- The Pope said that both elements in discussion, here, are compatible.
"- I criticized what the Pope said.
"That's it."
What did that have to do with anything? You didn't address my point at all. Do you or do you not still claim the Pope said it's OK to "believe in evolution"?
(The key here is your phrase "both elements in discussion": does that mean Christianity and "believing in evolution", or Christianity and "thinking that evolution is true but not subscribing to some kind of faith revolving around evolution"?
(And if the second, then you are factually incorrect when you claim that you criticized what the Pope said. You only criticized the first viewpoint and criticized the Pope.)
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