From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!hou5a!hou5d!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxb!lmg Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: RE: Matters Religious Article-I.D.: houxb.200 Posted: Fri Jan 28 12:50:39 1983 Received: Sat Jan 29 03:21:45 1983 References: ihuxa.186 "First, to deny the Christian the use of the Bible as a source for arguments or discussion is somewhat akin to discussing evolution but not being able to use Darwin. Remember, the Bible is the foundation of our faith, the final authority as to all matters religious." ********** I'm afraid the situation is not at all comparable. Evolution can be thoroughly discussed without any reference to Darwin at all. Darwin's work is in no way a "Bible" or "final authority" for evolutionary theory. It is just another reference work on the subject, albeit a very famous work and one of the earliest. The ultimate test of the validity of any statements about evolution (or any other subject) is not whether or not it agrees with what Darwin (or whomever) wrote, but whether or not observation and experiment show it to be correct. The problem with religious discussions is that observational and experimental tests tend to produce negative results, which can't prove much of anything. Larry Geary