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To: Ilaine who wrote (1851)	1/3/2006 7:55:19 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

People have been making rational arguments in support of belief in God for a very long time and doing so is not a vain pursuit. Perhaps you think the occupation of authoritative positions in science by philosophical materialists who use "science" to push their viewpoints shouldn't make a difference in anyone's faith, but I think it does to a lot of people. The priests of "orthodox Darwinism", Dennett's phrase, do claim that Darwinism constitutes incontrovertible evidence that no God had anything to do with either the development or the origin of life or the universe. Dennett wrote a book devoted to that claim. People like Dennett, and Richard Dawkins, do sit in positions of authority and are accepted as spokespersons for "science". Do you think God had anything to do with the origin or life or is it simply an accident? If you think God instead of blind purposeless chance is ultimately responsible, then I think you have to believe that at some point or other there was divine intervention in the material world. And any such intervention constitutes a denial of "orthodox Darwinism" (per p. 314 of Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea).