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Alara317 on 19 December 2012
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GameOver22 said:
Alara317 said:
timmah said:
Alara317 said:

Totally different than the bible you take as a collection of provable, undeniable facts?  

I'll go where the evidence points, not where silly ancient theories from a time when mercury was considered a miracle cure or washing was considered taboo.

When did I say this?

it was implied.  

and hey, if you're so critical of the accepted theory of the origin of life, come up with a better theory!  I mean, I've never seen someone argue with established scientific fact that either wasn't a brilliant scientist with a conflicting theory or a religious zealot, and given your criticisms and lack of willingness to accept the simplest of facts without substantial counter-arguments, I'm pretty sure you're not a brilliant scientist.  

I have a feeling you haven't read much scientific work....its actually quite common to criticize existing theories, even if you don't have an alternative explanation.


First of all, I'm not explaining every facet of my stance on religion vs science in every post.  I said in a previous post that scientific theories are revised and updated all the time, and sometimes flat out disproven.

Secondly, I said right there that "either wasn't a brilliant scientist with a conflicting theory".  I was making it clear that credible people who oppose established theories and facts are usually ones with counter-theories with enough evidence to support said theory.  Religious folk have a counter theory, but they do not have sufficient backing evidence to support their theories.  

This thread further establishes why arguing with the religious is futile.  I've seen over a dozen pages arguing semantics (the meaning of faith, the application of faith in science, what is a fact, what is a theory, etc), with very little in the way of palpable arguments supporting 'intelligent design'.  The only 'argument' that wasn't just "yeah, well science needs faith too!" was someone foolishly claiming that the bible said it, therefore it's true.