Re: Ping Your Name

On 02/12/2024 15:07, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote:

In article <vikeig$3c6m6$1@dont-email.me>,
The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

On 02/12/2024 13:49, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote:

In article <vik6kk$3a5bg$1@dont-email.me>,
Daniel70  <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

This afternoon I caught up on the 'lastest' "The Brokenwood Mysteries" episode, "Brokenwood-o-saurus" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31272072/?ref_=ttep_ep1 which had me thinking about this group as the story was about a very religious paleontologist ..... isn't that a contradiction?? A Person who believes The Earth came into existance just 10,000 years ago (in the program) but at the same time believes dinosaurs existed a hundred million years ago.
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Sort of like our very own 'religious' nut who believes God created Earth (alone) 6,000 years ago but accepts there could be intelligent lifeforms from other planets .... that weren't made by God!! ;-P
-- Daniel

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uAnd then there are Creationist scientists.

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No, Dave, there really aren't, except in a "first cause old Earth
Creationist" sense.
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Unless you are stretching the definition of "science". >
I bet you won't find any New Earth Creationist biologists, physicists,
astronomers, geologists, or biochemists, for example.
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No-one expert in any science that would be relevant to supporting
Creationism is a New Earth Creationist because it's self evidently false
given the vast weight of scientific evidence against it and the complete
and utter absence of even one point of evidence that would support it.
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Sounds like anti-Christian bigotry to me.

There are a great many scientists who are Christian. There are vanishingly
 few who are Biblical Literalists or New Age Creationists because anyone
 with a critical mind and even modest intelligence knows that these concepts
 are just plain wrong and run counter to reason and to a faith that can ve
 credible. So only people who are prepared to lie to themselves and the people around
 them constantly could practise honest science while holding beliefs that
 run counter to fact, to reality, and to their scientific knowledge.
It isn't bigotry to recognise lies and stupidity, Dave, and it isn't
 anti-Christian - it's just common sense and having an honest faith.
--
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.