From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 9 12:29:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0346037B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D453743E86 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0088.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.88] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17oUDL-0001OE-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:28:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7CF633.187527E@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:27:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Lawrence Sica , Giorgos Keramidas , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020909115857.F9219-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > > > This is just what I am trying to get people to admit, that evolution > > > requires tremendous leaps of faith. Now if you could see that it is also > > > irrational, my job would be done. > > > > The problem with this idea is that we all freely admit that > > evolution is a *theory*. > > That is completely irrational. Yet, to reject it would imply something > that evolutionists just cannot bear to accept. Why is it "completely irrational"? All it amounts to is that we are willing to acknowledge that we don't know everything. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message