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 :dangerous business digging into another man's motives  perhaps we should take a step back, and focus on what each other are saying, rather than what we think the other's ""true motives"" are:).   

 :on the contrary, friend, i think that science and occam's razor RECOMMEND belief in the existance of God, as we discussed earlier.  given the choice between accepting a theory which requires me to make innunerable assumptions, many of which are (in my opinion) completely contrary to the observable laws of nature, and choosing to believe in God, i think the latter is most parsimonious.  your counterargument is that you think the current models work, or will work at some time in the future.  my response is that i don't think they do.  Ultimately, this debate comes down to the ""specifics"" we're trying to avoid.  is evolution scientifically viable?  i don't think it is.  I think we have more evidence of God's creation and Noah's flood than we know what to do with, but willfully refuse to see it, because we have lost our minds.  2Peter 3:3-6.    

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 :i believe that any God that created the world through evolution would be deeply, deeply malevolent.  i find the Problem of evil to be quite compelling, and believe that it can only be countered through Open Theism and Creationism  the idea that God made the world Good, hoping it would stay that way, but we surprised him, and fucked it up.  It's that or atheism for me.  i won't accept a God who created a world of death, murder, and disease.  that god is Satan.  i'd rather go to hell than live in his heaven.    

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 :to me, faith is not believing in things without evidence.  i think that believing in things without evidence is wishful thinking and self-deception.  faith to me is taking the Truth we've been given, and seeking greater Truth.  The ""Hall of Faith"" in Hebrews 11 includes murderers, adulterers, drunkards, pagans, and prostitutes, and absolutely no christians. What did they have in common?  They were ""strangers in a foreign land, seeking their home."" That's me.  a crazy eddie of a different stripe:).   "