XPost: alt.atheism, talk.atheism   
      
   On Sat, 9 May 2015 21:56:26 +0000 (UTC), Smil wrote:   
   .   
   >On Fri, 08 May 2015 22:02:27 -0400, mur wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:39:01 -0400, raven1    
   >> wrote:   
   >> .   
   >>>On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:18:42 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On 2015-04-30, mur wrote:   
   >>>>...   
   >>>>>     The fact that there are no examples of reptiles in transition   
   >>>>>     stages to   
   >>>>> birds, or mammals in transition stages to flying mammals, etc, alive   
   >>>>> today is evidence that something (like God) had deliberate influence   
   >>>>> on evolution.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   If there are no examples, it is evidence that they either haven't   
   >>>>   been found yet or that there aren't any. It says nothing whatsoever   
   >>>>   about the existence of something like God or anything else.   
   >>>   
   >>>We do have transitional fossils of reptile-to-bird evolution,   
   >>>Archaeopteryx being the most celebrated. But whether we did or not, you   
   >>>are correct that this is irrelevant to the existence of a deity,   
   >>>and it's involvement or not in the process.   
   >>   
   >>     That's your guess, and you obviously have great faith in your guess   
   >>     being   
   >> correct, but so far you've given no reason why everyone else should put   
   >> their faith in it being correct. How about if you give everybody reason   
   >> to now?   
   >   
   >No faith is needed when there is scientific evidence,   
      
       Of what?   
      
   >of which there is plenty.   
      
       Why didn't you present it then?   
      
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