Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Ron Dean Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Wistar Symposium "Mathematical Challenge to Neo-Darwinism". Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 13:17:29 -0400 Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Lines: 41 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="68415"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13.4; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 60FA5229873; Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:17:31 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FD1229871 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:17:29 -0400 (EDT) id 123D55DC4B; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07A6A5DC40 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:17:31 +0000 (UTC) by nntpmail01.iad.omicronmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE1D0E1638 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:17:30 +0000 (UTC) id 866722E2017F; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:17:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Path: fx11.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail In-Reply-To: X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:17:29 UTC Bytes: 3882 Martin Harran wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 11:15:24 -0400, Ron Dean > wrote: > > [snip for focus] > >> In my youth I came to accept evolution as a fact. But after reading a >> book by Dr Michael Denton, on a challenge, I began to question the >> "evidence" for evolution and that's where I am today. > > When forming my own views on a subject, I always make an effort to > understand the various views on the subject. For example, on my > bookshelf, 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins sits alongside his > 'God Delusion'; Jerry Coyne's 'Why Evolution is True' sits alongside > his ' Faith Versus Fact'; Francis Collins's 'The Language of God' sits > alongside Stephen Meyer's 'God Hypothesis'. > > What books or authors have you read you that argue against Intelligent > Design? > I love reading, especially Science Fiction books + movies. I've read: The Blind Watchmaker - Dawkins the God Delusion -Dawkins The language of Life - Collins and 2 or 3 others, 25+ years ago - the titles I do not recall, but one was justifying faith in Christ another the history of Christianity. But I've also read, The Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith, Books both positive and critical of the man. Also Mary Baker Eddy 's Christian Healer. And I've been entertained a few times over the years by Mormon missionaries. I'm not a regular Church attender, but I do go from time to time. My wife is Methodist, so when I do go, it's to a Methodist Church. But never their Sunday School. The United Methodist Church is a liberal Denomination. Do you ever attend any Church services? > > […] >