Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scgvaxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!scgvaxd!dan From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: A new voice. Message-ID: <349@scgvaxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 21:43:38 EDT Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.349 Posted: Fri Jun 28 21:43:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:13:56 EDT References: <2156@ut-sally.UUCP> <347@scgvaxd.UUCP> <368@spar.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA Lines: 26 Summary: In article <368@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes: > > Science only describes objective mechanisms, not subjective things like > `purpose' or `meaning'. As such, it will always be soulless, and its > descriptions incomplete. But that does not mean that is wrong -- > except when science declares itself to be All That Is. Too bad it hasn't been able to describe a reasonable mechanism for Evolution. > If your difficulty with evolution is that the theory lacks some > essential element, then we concur on this point. An independent > consciousness can only appear to act as if by chance when scrutinized > by a purely objective viewpoint. > My difficulty with Evolution is that it is nothing more than a theory yet many treat it as fact. > Why evolution cannot be seen, by Christians, as a description of part > of the mechanism God used to make the present complexity, is beyond me. I asked for a reason to believe in Evolution. You did not give me one! Perhaps if you had, I COULD see it! Dan