>>Susan:
>>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.
Bertvan:
>I'm not sure there is such a thing as a debate with a Darwinist.
Indeed. I bring evidence, you bring your beliefs. So you are probably right.
Since I"m not in your killfile, I'm still curious about extinction:
>over 90% (and I think it's *way* over 90%) of everthing that ever lived is
>now
>extinct. Why does the designer design something and then wipe it out? over
>and over and
>over again? Of course no one can know the mind of such a powerful being,
>but I'm curious
>how IDers speculate about why a designer would do such a thing?
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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