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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1769)	12/22/2005 2:01:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

If religious people believe in evolution, doesn't that make evolution religion? Sorry, just using a common "argument" in a different way. If religious people believe that grapefruit rind cures cancer, does that make quack cancer cures religion? I religious people believe that five for a dollar is a better buy than twenty cents each, does that make bad math religion? There are lots of things that I believe and I don't have a religious bone in my body. I believe that people are basically nice. I believe that the sun will come up tomorrow. I believe that my team will make the playoffs. Does that make them not religion? And if a similarly situated person believed these same things, would they then be religion? Sorry, just using a common "argument" in a different way. I don't find that argument useful. Which is correct scientifically in your view - darwinism or SET? I do not know if either of them is correct. Nor do I know if God exists. No one knows. They can't be proven. Whether a notion has been proven or not is irrelevant to whether it is science or not. Much of science is unproven. That's why we call them "theories." Quite a few people have had similar experiences. I think it is quite common. I had never heard that before. I would be surprised if it were common. The only people who would have any reason to convey that message to kids would be atheists. Given that only a tiny percentage of the population subscribes to atheism, it stands to reason that very few biology teachers are atheists. And of those who are atheists, even fewer would be so dishonorable or so stupid as to tell kids that. So the chances of a kid encountering that message from a biology teacher is small. I was not taught that. The only thing I remember about first learning of evolution was that it appeared on the surface to contradict my Catholic teaching. But I thought about it a bit, a matter of minutes, reconciled the two, and moved on. Since I did that so easily as a little kid, I struggle to understand how adults can have difficulty with it.