PKM:

Those observations were collected by hundreds of thousands of people in hundreds of different disciplines and walks of life, over hundreds of years. Yet you lump ALL of them together as being part of a "monstrous lie". Are you seriously arguing that they were all part of some centuries-long conspiracy, and that YOU have the sole truth? They didn't know each other, nor speak the same languages, or anything. Indeed, it was a long time before people gathered all these observations together (into those libraries) and tried to make sense of them. We're still trying to make sense of them, and probably always will.

haha:

Sorry, I'm not anti-religion at all. You may know that I am suspicious of absolutes, since they seem to change so much. And many people of deep faith are involved in the effort to improve our evolutionary theories. They accept the fact of evolution, but want to understand how it *works* better than they do.

Your challenger was NOT interested (IMO) with understanding the ongoing process of discovery and explanation. He was interested in ridiculing it. I admit I have no respect for such people. But my own faith is not threatened by this process, but rather made deeper.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), October 18, 1999