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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
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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)
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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