From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 4 12:14:13 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 58C7337B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31AE43E77 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84JE9Gd082539; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g84JE8G1082536; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Joshua Lee Cc: Terry Lambert , , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <20020904021149.10d2e0f4.yid@softhome.net> Message-ID: <20020904120659.L88455-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:34:18 -0700 > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > > > You guys are quite amusing to read! The only thing you can agree > > > on is your anemic prejudices against theology. > > Actually, we weren't talking much about theology until you took offense at the subject line. You misunderstand, sir. No offense taken. Just a friendly little conversation. Evolution has certain implied theological committments, however, so it seemed appropriate to "seize the moment", if you will. Good Day, Neal > > > I don't personally know if there is a God or not. > > > > Barring evidence one way or the other, the choice between any > > two competing hypothesis must be made on the basis of which of > > the two is simpler. > > Terry, William of Occam was a theist. ;-) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message