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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-15-07 07:41 PM
Response to Reply #70
73. Some thinking is more critical than others
Using ancient writings and folk tales as geological evidence is not critical thinking, it's pseudoscience.
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  -Believers: How important is scripture to your faith? BurtWorm  Mar-14-07 03:55 PM   #0 
  - Good question. I know in the Catholic church they close every reading of their "Bible" with:  poverlay   Mar-14-07 04:23 PM   #1 
  - That's exactly  Dorian Gray   Mar-15-07 08:33 AM   #32 
  - It's a library--has good stuff and bad stuff  Defenestrate   Mar-14-07 05:13 PM   #2 
  - That same could be turned around  zeemike   Mar-14-07 05:21 PM   #3 
  - It wouldn't make any sense to ask atheists/agnostics/humanists that.  Heaven and Earth   Mar-14-07 06:56 PM   #4 
  - So true...I study evolution and taxonomy (phylogenetics) and  Evoman   Mar-14-07 07:58 PM   #6 
  - "because evolution is true"  zeemike   Mar-14-07 08:38 PM   #10 
     - Lol...excuse me?  Evoman   Mar-14-07 10:19 PM   #11 
     - Evolution has facts but is not one, it is a theory  zeemike   Mar-14-07 11:33 PM   #12 
     - Evolution is a fact. Evolution is NOT a theory.  cosmik debris   Mar-14-07 11:54 PM   #14 
     - Natural selection has been used for centuries  zeemike   Mar-15-07 12:08 AM   #16 
     - Have you ever taken calculus  cosmik debris   Mar-15-07 01:20 AM   #20 
     - you don't need calculus to see that  zeemike   Mar-15-07 04:55 AM   #26 
        - I'm sorry.  cosmik debris   Mar-15-07 08:38 AM   #33 
           - And I am sorry to offend you with something different.  zeemike   Mar-15-07 06:26 PM   #67 
              - I'm not offended  cosmik debris   Mar-15-07 09:34 PM   #75 
     - Bwahaha.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 02:08 AM   #24 
        - you think my belief is due to lack of exposure to science?  zeemike   Mar-15-07 04:37 AM   #25 
           - Your making things up.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 11:01 AM   #39 
              - The optimum size for a dog is what we see in nature  zeemike   Mar-15-07 06:48 PM   #69 
                 - You may have a point.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 07:25 PM   #71 
                    - Remember that saying  zeemike   Mar-15-07 10:09 PM   #76 
     - The American Kennel Club?  Dorian Gray   Mar-15-07 08:46 AM   #35 
     - Anybody who ever owned or bred  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 11:53 AM   #91 
     - "A theory designed to interrupt the facts?"  BurtWorm   Mar-14-07 11:55 PM   #15 
     - I'm sorry but a theory is not a fact  zeemike   Mar-15-07 12:15 AM   #17 
        - It is a fact that species evolve.  BurtWorm   Mar-15-07 08:27 AM   #30 
           - It is a fact that they change  zeemike   Mar-15-07 10:39 PM   #78 
              - Evolution within a species has been observed within recent history  BurtWorm   Mar-16-07 01:24 AM   #80 
     - You are ignorant.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:39 AM   #21 
        - And so the name calling begins  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:17 AM   #27 
           - Sharing ideas  cosmik debris   Mar-15-07 09:19 AM   #37 
           - David was probably the chieftain of a little village in the middle of nowhere.  Heaven and Earth   Mar-15-07 09:28 AM   #38 
           - David was the son of Jessi citizen of Bethlehem  zeemike   Mar-15-07 06:09 PM   #65 
           - Please read what archaeologists have to say about the Kingdom of Judah in David's time  Heaven and Earth   Mar-15-07 07:30 PM   #72 
              - Not much to read there unless you buy the book  zeemike   Mar-15-07 10:31 PM   #77 
                 - It's worth a trip to the library.  Heaven and Earth   Mar-16-07 01:11 AM   #79 
           - Didn't David write most of the psalms?  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 11:59 AM   #92 
           - Lol...I told you, I get it.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 11:05 AM   #40 
     - Well, the Mormons rewrote the Bible  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 11:50 AM   #90 
     - I don't see what one has to do with the other  Dorian Gray   Mar-15-07 08:40 AM   #34 
  - Oh no I have done it again  zeemike   Mar-14-07 08:12 PM   #8 
     - No.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:47 AM   #22 
     - If it were possible  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:30 AM   #28 
        - Yes, genesis disagrees with science.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 11:10 AM   #42 
        - Can you explain  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 01:41 PM   #54 
     - Inland, is that you? n/t  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 11:08 AM   #41 
        - Do you believe in reincarnation?  BurtWorm   Mar-15-07 04:37 PM   #60 
        - Apparently not  zeemike   Mar-15-07 06:18 PM   #66 
  - The Origin of Species has lots of corroboration for its main points  cosmik debris   Mar-14-07 07:31 PM   #5 
     - And so does the bible have corroboration of it's main points  zeemike   Mar-14-07 08:24 PM   #9 
        - The point is that there is no need to depend on Darwin.  cosmik debris   Mar-14-07 11:35 PM   #13 
        - No, Darwin with Genesis the first book of the bible.  zeemike   Mar-15-07 12:21 AM   #18 
           - I don't think you have a very good grasp of Darwin's work  cosmik debris   Mar-15-07 01:02 AM   #19 
           - Have you read Darwins book?  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:49 AM   #23 
           - yes I have  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:36 AM   #29 
              - Clearly.  BurtWorm   Mar-15-07 08:31 AM   #31 
              - I found it especially difficult BECAUSE it wasn't in a style  Evoman   Mar-15-07 11:14 AM   #45 
              - Dude, you read that book 21 years before I was born.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:31 PM   #50 
                 - Don't remind me  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:24 PM   #63 
           - Genesis is science?  BurtWorm   Mar-15-07 04:40 PM   #61 
              - in that it is a thumb nail sketch of creation yes n/t  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:20 PM   #62 
                 - So according to you any creation myth is "science?"  BurtWorm   Mar-16-07 09:20 AM   #82 
        - This should be good.  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 11:11 AM   #43 
           - A more interesting question:  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:33 PM   #51 
           - Clearly Jesus  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 01:40 PM   #53 
              - I suppose a better question would be:  Evoman   Mar-15-07 02:40 PM   #59 
           - you set a trap  zeemike   Mar-15-07 05:52 PM   #64 
              - Yes, the trap's called "critical thinking"  jgraz   Mar-15-07 06:40 PM   #68 
                 - But it is only critical thinking if you are doing it  zeemike   Mar-15-07 06:51 PM   #70 
                    - Some thinking is more critical than others  jgraz   Mar-15-07 07:41 PM   #73 
  - "inspired" sure. Dictated, no.  JerseygirlCT   Mar-14-07 08:01 PM   #7 
  - Agree  Dorian Gray   Mar-15-07 08:50 AM   #36 
  - OK, I'll come out and say it.  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 11:13 AM   #44 
  - Um..dude...you need Faith.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 11:18 AM   #46 
  - Who are you? This guy?  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 12:55 PM   #47 
  - Hey man.  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:10 PM   #48 
  - Rabrrrrrr's Billy Joel joke posted in The Lounge  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 01:21 PM   #49 
     - BWAHAHAHAHAH  Evoman   Mar-15-07 01:33 PM   #52 
     - Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!  Rabrrrrrr   Mar-15-07 01:47 PM   #55 
        - My roomate and I used to say  Evoman   Mar-15-07 02:35 PM   #58 
     - I hope that one goes down in history as a classic joke.  Rabrrrrrr   Mar-15-07 01:47 PM   #56 
     - Best. Billy Joel. Joke. Ever.  Goblinmonger   Mar-15-07 01:52 PM   #57 
        - There are more than one??  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 11:59 AM   #93 
     - That's really funny....  Dorian Gray   Mar-27-07 01:36 PM   #97 
  - I was thinking  Dorian Gray   Mar-27-07 01:34 PM   #96 
  - I don't know if you are joking with this response or not...  Dorian Gray   Mar-27-07 01:34 PM   #95 
  - You say  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 12:06 PM   #94 
     - Very true  Dorian Gray   Mar-27-07 01:38 PM   #98 
  - Depends on the message and consideration o the time and  rasputin1952   Mar-15-07 08:46 PM   #74 
  - Very important  MrWiggles   Mar-16-07 06:56 AM   #81 
  - Wrongly translated  nickols_k   Mar-18-07 07:59 AM   #83 
  - no need for salvation when the gods argue  scholarsOrAcademics   Mar-26-07 07:20 PM   #84 
  - Scriptures  ayeshahaqqiqa   Mar-26-07 07:41 PM   #85 
  - Are you a pantheist?  toddaa   Mar-26-07 07:44 PM   #86 
     - Not sure of the meaning of  ayeshahaqqiqa   Mar-26-07 07:51 PM   #87 
        - Panentheism  toddaa   Mar-26-07 08:16 PM   #88 
  - The OT is a wild and crazy place  MistressOverdone   Mar-27-07 11:47 AM   #89 
 

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