On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:44:47 GMT, Trevor Wilson wrote:



"surf" wrote in message
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One is based on observable data,

Certainly, living things can be observed to have evolved. However there
are many biological mechanisms that are irreduceably complex and could
not have evolved.... Had Darwin seen these things, he would have
****canned
his theory.

.... the other is based on a bilical fairy tale.

that's your opinion.

**Nope. That's a fact.

Can you prove Christ didn't return from death?

**That would be a strawman, however, it is reasonable to deduce that one of
several things occurred:

* That Jesus did not die on the cross, but was in a coma. He awoke and
walked away.
* That Jesus did die on the cross and that the witnesses to his alleged
rising from the dead, were deluded.

No other explanation fits in with the available evidence and within the
framework of science.


Hardly. A far more likely explanation is that it's just a fairy tale assembled
from prior fairy tales of the times.

AZ Nomad said:

Hardly. A far more likely explanation is that it's just a fairy tale assembled
from prior fairy tales of the times.

Surely you're not suggesting that some of the "events" recounted in Ye
Olde Bible did not actually happen? My god ... that would make those
religious guys a bunch of immoral fibbers.