>> >"I believe" sounded to me like someone who's made up their mind.
>>
>>Hi Ralph,
>>Sorry for the confusion. I was not clear. Yes, I have pretty much made up my
>>mind that evolution was not the result of chance. Design and intelligence
>>were involved. The details of the design - how it was implemented - that I
>>regard as a mystery. The historical facts, what actually happened, might be
>>eventually better understood than at present.
>>
>>Bertvan
>
>Thanks for clearing that up. I see nothing to debate in "I believe"
>statements.
>ralph
Bertvan doesn't really like to debate. (Why she remains on a debate list is
a continuing mystery to me.) She merely wants to state her beliefs
publically. She gets really annoyed if someone tries to show her that her
beliefs have no underpinnings. Her beliefs are dogmatic, rigidly held, and
require no underpinnings. They are true because she believes them to be
true and she has a right to her beliefs, so there.
being rather obstinate myself, I have kept pestering her with questions and
observations about her beliefs and I think she finally put me in her
killfile.
Susan
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced
by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew
why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct
species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and
natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the
laws of ordinary reproduction.
---Charles Darwin
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