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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."

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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