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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 16, 2024 at 10:04 am
Mmmm.. good question!
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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 16, 2024 at 12:40 pm
They would take advantage of the therapies and simply deny they had anything to do with evolutionary theory.
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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 16, 2024 at 1:32 pm
Not all creationists deny evolution, so I think it would depend on which particular franchise of creationism is being considered.
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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 16, 2024 at 2:18 pm
I'll get Santa to give me what I need, no evolution necessary, just magic. The only problem, will I live till next December?
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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 17, 2024 at 5:01 am
(February 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (February 16, 2024 at 1:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not all creationists deny evolution, so I think it would depend on which particular franchise of creationism is being considered.
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Very few creationists, at least in well connnected, generally literate communities exposed to modern science, totally deny evolution. Otherwise the effects of the fact that children tend to look like parents or grand parents but not identical would prove an awkward thing to account for. when challenged they might call these micro-evolution. What many deny are speciation through evolution, Because if speciation had indeed occurred on large scale, then the silence of religious tradition on the issue tend to imply religion mostly didn’t know jack shit.
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RE: Inquiry regarding creationists
February 17, 2024 at 6:14 am
creationism
noun
the belief that the universe and living originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.
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