(2017-12-05, 03:15 AM)Dante Wrote: No steve, this is your game and your problem, not mine. You asked me what issues I had with your version of evolution and I gave a cursory review of the issues I have with it, and didn't list any ideological reasons because the issues I have don't have to do with ideology. That you think there can be no possible other answer is further indicative of your completely walled in bias with absolutely no room to move any direction. In fact, I would love to ask you the same question: what "normative state of mind" (what an absolutely absurd phrase for this situation) makes you think it absolutely must be via purely random chance? The fact that you can't fathom how someone could come to a conclusion distinct from your own without some unwavering bias or ideology that blocks all evidence inconsistent with that view is probably the reason that you don't have any substantive discussions with people on this thread or elsewhere. You're only interested in "outing" what you assume must be people's biases because it just couldn't be that they'd disagree with you for actual substantive reasons, right? Even when they understand the material and evidence as well as (or far better than) you.
To come back and rephrase your question entirely, which doesn't naturally follow from what you posted, and then try to tell me I didn't answer your question, is insincere. Of course I can't read your mind so maybe next time consider saying what you actually mean and you'll get a different answer.
Oh, I do fathom how someone chooses to see design irrespective of what the evidence indicates. I suspect that's why you choose to be sympathetic to that position if not outright supportive.
As I said earlier, in this country I cotton no talk of design because those that squeak most loudly asserting there is design are too willing to insert their Christian God into all areas of public life undermining the liberties our Constitution grants us citizens. To think they are simply questioning the science of evolution is absurdly naive.
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