Jeff asked: As in "some people believe in evolution and others believe in creationism"?

katysails wrote:
Yes, and that some believe that creationism does not exclude evolutionism.

Sure, it would have been easy for God to have created the world so that
evolution is a valid scientific principle... maybe that means
'creationism' is a trap for people whose faith is not strong enough...

DSK

"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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"Donal" wrote in message
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"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
As in "some people believe in evolution and others believe in
creationism"?

What do *you* believe, Jeff?


I believe that if there is a god, he wouldn't want us to be stupid. A god
that
could create our world by tossing out a "big bang" would be very
impressive.
The god described in Genesis is a cute metaphor for children and very
simple
people. Not that I don't like Genesis - Its by far my favorite piece of
literature - but to teach it as literal truth to anyone older than 6 years
is
abuse.

You might be right. However, when people suggest that we have managed to
evolve over a period of 600,000 years, then I just laugh.


Regards


Donal

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Dave tries to explain his position:=20
How many legs does a pig have if you call its tail a leg?

Doesn't matter what you call the tail, or the leg, as long as it isn't =
crude or rude...

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katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

200,000 years ago is the current guess. That's when a couple hundred women
walked out of sub-Saharan Africa to populate the world.

when people suggest that we have managed to
evolve over a period of 600,000 years, then I just laugh.


Regards


Donal

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On 15 Mar 2004 01:24:00 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote this
crap:

200,000 years ago is the current guess. That's when a couple hundred women
walked out of sub-Saharan Africa to populate the world.

There must have been a few smiling guys who went with them.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

yeah. three.

That's when a couple hundred women
walked out of sub-Saharan Africa to populate the world.

There must have been a few smiling guys who went with them.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

No, this isn't satire. This is obnoxious language. Obviously, one
of your strong points.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:12:00 -0800, "Jonathan Ganz"
said:

It sure doesn't. Quite offensive, and a stupid thing to say.

Talk about not recognizing satire if it bit you in the ass....

Ah, but I forget. That's not one of your strong points.


Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27

You are truly an idiot and a racist (apparently). You seem to think
that calling someone an African American vs. a ****** somehow
obsolves you from the thought that went behind calling the person
a ****** in the first place. No intelligent person would ever call
someone a ******, unless you were living in the 1800s or earlier.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:33:00 -0500, "katysails"

said:

Doesn't matter what you call the tail, or the leg, as long as it isn't
crude or rude...

curmudgeonly discourse
Du'n matter what I call it even if somebody does thinks it's crude or
rude.
It's still the same old tail.

Having spent 50 years hearing that one must say Negro, not ******, one
must
say black, not Negro, one must say African-American, not black, one must
say
afro-American, not African-American, one may say ******, but only if he is
African-American etc., etc. I can only laugh when I hear someone making
much
of such nonsense. The only thing "correcting" such words does is to label
the person doing the tut-tutting as either a self-righteous fool, or
someone
with an irrepressible need to push his own agenda.

An yes, I did deliberately commit the horrible offense of using "his" to
mean "his or her," "his/her" or whatever flag-waving combination of words
is
current.
/curmudgeonly discourse

Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27

You might qualify for the sword through the neck trick with this statement.

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"DSK" wrote in message
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Jeff asked: As in "some people believe in evolution and others believe
in creationism"?

katysails wrote:
Yes, and that some believe that creationism does not exclude
evolutionism.

Sure, it would have been easy for God to have created the world so that
evolution is a valid scientific principle... maybe that means
'creationism' is a trap for people whose faith is not strong enough...

DSK

Dave stated: someone
with an irrepressible need to push his own agenda.

It isn't an irrepresible need to push my agenda at all...I'm an HTR =
generalist and I work in a field where there is a lot of dicersity. =
Using derogatory terms that exist because of hatred spurns on that =
hatred. Why not just try t think of everyone as being a human being? =
Why label someone with a negative slang expression? Why demean yourself =
by demeaning others?

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein