jgress wrote:Forgive me, I shouldn't have said your views are "silly", Icxypion. I used to have the same views myself, and they certainly made sense to me at the time.
No offense taken, dear Jonathan. I love a good lively discussion. Because we get lively doesn't mean we are lacking in charity. I do think that saying something is "unacceptable" is very diplomatic. Vitriolic language would be language like "idiotic" or "stupid". Since I can see your reasoning in what you have said, what you have posited is not worthy of any other inflammatory kind of language. I understand you. However, your views are based on your trust that scientific data cannot be interpreted any other way than the views of the modernist scientists who state that the fossils are absolutely billions of years old. This is a claim I find very much wanting from both a scientific view, and from a biblical and patristic view which is based on divine revelation by the Spirit of TRUTH. Both of us are very educated and are able to analyse scientific arguments well. I have studied the intelligent design theorists for a long time (they are not Creationists, which I agree have problems of a greater order than the ID theorists) and I feel that they have put forward excellent arguments on a host of physical science fields that show that the conclusions of the Evolutionists are based on a lot of presumptions, and that they ignore a great many alternate interpretations of data that are equally satisfying (and at the end of the day they have no more loose ends than the Evolutionist theories do). We have been raised in public schools that from our childhood teach us to unquestioningly accept the wisdom of the authorised views put forward in our textbooks. Also, many coverups of embarrassing results and findings by Evolutionists and believers in a billions of years evolution on Earth have also been exposed by world class scientists. Most people don.t realise and could scarely bring themselves to believe how human and subject to fudging these heroes of Darwin are.