On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:49:51 -0500, Buerste wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in message
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RBnDFW wrote:

Cliff wrote:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...2009/11/palin-
on-darwin.html
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[
Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she
"didn't believe
in the theory that human beings - thinking, loving beings -
originated from fish
that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea" or from "monkeys who
eventually
swung down from the trees."
]

So we have a national candidate whose views on natural selection,
perhaps the
most important theory in recent scientific history, reveal that the
reality she
lives in is not related in any serious way to the world she actually
inhabits.
Good going, Senator McCain
]

What part of "theory" do you not understand?

It was theory when it was proposed all those years ago. Evolution has
since been proven and is now fact, unlike the theories of various
superstitions which despite thousands of years of trying have yet to
find any supporting evidence, much less proof.

God has a zero probability of existence because you can't quantify it.

I'm more in line with Stephen J. Gould's opinion that science and
religion address two separate realms of knowledge -- he calls them
"magisteria" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-
overlapping_magisteria).

Lack of proof isn't proof of lack. You cannot state scientifically that
the supernatural _can't_ exist, although you're welcome to _believe_ it
with all your heart as long as you don't try to ram that belief -- with
all your own personal ramifications about what I must and must not do --
down _my_ throat.

(Although the Abrahamic Jehovah that matches a literal interpretation of
the bible is about as likely as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, IMHO. But
if he's out there, I refuse to believe that he's a liar -- hence I'm a
lot more ready to believe that Darwin is right and the rocks are right,
which means that the authors of the bible are wrong and Pat Robertson is
a dangerous lunatic with too many followers).

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