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From: MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Paradoxes
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:46:59 +1100
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On 16/01/2025 6:46 pm, Martin Harran wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:42:09 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> Sure, be careful to avoid a god-of-the-gaps.
>> Sure, knowledge of God lies outside the province of science.
>> Sure, do not rest religious belief on the science of the day.
>>
>> But, I suspect the thinking you espouse is the product of an a priori
>> commitment to metaphysical naturalism. Which itself is a position of
>> faith, for example:
>>
>> "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be." (Carl Sagan)
> 
> 
> I've already asked you this several times but you've always ignored
> it; is there any chance of you addressing it this time?
> 
> How do you squareyour claim of an a priori faith-like commitment to
> metaphysical naturalism with the many, many theistic evolutionists
> like myself who are totally convinced of  their religious beliefs but
> have no problem accepting the role of natural processes in both OOL
> and Evolution?
> 
> As pointed out by Eugenie Scott, Director of the US National Center
> for Science Education, "In one form or another, Theistic Evolutionism
> is the view of creation taught at the majority of mainline Protestant
> seminaries, and it is the official position of the Catholic church"
> 

I assume you meant to say "metaphysical supernaturalism"?

Personally, I haven't ruled out Theistic Evolutionism. A have trusted 
and respected friends who are orthodox Christians and hold to various 
forms theistic evolution.

However, to me, the scientific evidence does not support a 
noninterventionist interpretation.