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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:53:14 +0000
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On 22/12/2024 09:31, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:12:43 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>>     Those poor people ... caught between an ever-growing mountain of
>>     facts/evidence and equally-persuasive *belief* (which requires no
>>     facts). They TRY to find ways to splice it all together. It doesn't
>>     work well ...
> 
> A friend was a Young Earther despite being a proficient programmer. Given
> the premise God can do anything it's no problem for him to whip up the
> Grand Canyon with all its geological layers in his spare time. He was also
> well rehearsed in the creationist arguments against evolution.
> 

The problem is, that both the scientific narrative and the creationist 
one are complete, logical and unassailable.

One posits a supernatural 'Big Bang' from which time, space energy and 
the laws of nature miraculously sprang, and the other posits a big 
Creation from which  time, space energy and the laws of nature 
miraculously sprang, just already formed as a complete *fake*, like 
someone today constructing a '1000 year old' house. Complete with faked 
history.

The only difference is the latter big bang has a sentient intelligence 
with a  Plan in charge.

Really we only reject it on the slender basis of Occam - it's simply 
more complicated than necessary to explain this shit.



-- 
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the 
urge to rule it.”
– H. L. Mencken