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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: What points to the ID scam?
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 19:30:33 -0800, the following appeared in
talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com>:

<snip>

>I've never understood the need for the ID proponents to prove that 
>evolution is wrong.  Certainly God could have done it that way, and do 
>they actually assert that he couldn't? My brother in law is a YEC, and 
>doesn't accept the larger God that can play with billions of years.
>
That supports the idea that "Man created God in his own
image". It's neither logically consistent (given that belief
usually involves a deity more capable than His believers)
nor particularly religious ("God cannot do anything I
can't").
At best it's a failure of imagination. At worst it's a
denial of divinity.
>
-- 

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov