From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
   On 29/08/2025 8:06 pm, jillery wrote:   
   > On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:59:57 +1000, MarkE  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Let's celebrate the freedom to hold different views. As I said, let the   
   >> reader decide.   
   >   
   >   
   > You go from asking if god-of-the-gaps refutations are disingenuous   
   > caricatures, to asking if people don't have a right to different   
   > points of view.  These are two very different questions, representing   
   > a disingenuous shift in topic.  Bad form, MarkE.   
   >   
   > Of course everybody has a right to their own opinions, but they don't   
   > have a right to their own facts.  Your posts assert current OoL   
   > research is at a standstill facing a fundamental and ever-widening   
   > gulf of ignorance. When in fact OoL researchers have made and continue   
   > to make progress in closing that gap.   
      
   You're arguing by assertion.   
      
   You say "When in fact OoL researchers have made and continue to make   
   progress in closing that gap", which is merely a personal assertion of   
   one side of the debate, not an argument or statement of fact.   
      
   No big deal, I'm sure I've made similar errors. Respect for owning it.   
      
   >   
   > Instead of presuming OoL research is at odds with a Creator, ISTM you   
   > would do better to follow the style of Cardinal Baronius and presume   
   > OoL research shows not how to live, but how the Creator made life.   
   >   
      
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