Also, let me remind everyone what is happening here. Some people here, after having lived on this planet in most cases probably less than two decades, argue that they have absolute knowledge that a very specific God not only created the Universe, but also influenced it later by e.g. creating man from dirt and woman from a bone.
Then there are other people who base their view of the Universe on the accumulated works of some of the most intelligent people of generations over the past centuries and decades. Very few of them claim to know what happened in the beginning. On the origins of man on the other hand, they can be almost certain, that no unnatural interference had to occur at any point of our long 3.7 biotic evolution here. The certainty is somewhat lower for the pre-biotic phase, but it's ever increasing. Right now one possibility is that our very origin is not from dirt, but from RNA molecules on the ocean floor in proximity to a hydrothermal vent.
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Of course, in many cases the absolute side also claims knowledge of talking snakes, flying camels, global floods, the living dead, etc. which definitely are not results of artistic creativity because like in the Internet, everything in books is true too. They know it's true because they were told it's true. It's the book of God because it says that it's the book of God. That's totally not circular reasoning. This absolute knowledge they have, and it's not questioned. All things scientific that are on the contrary however, for those things extraordinary evidence is demanded. No double standards
edit on 3-4-2012 by rhinoceros because: (no reason given)
