I really don't understand how BigTexn can suggest that "faith" and "theory" (and half a dozen other diverse words) are interchangeable words. I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure you won't find them as synonyms in any thesaurus.
I thought a theory was an idea:
based on all available facts,
made in comparison to other proven principles,
and the most likely notion in regard to all current evidence and testing available.
Whereas faith is a feeling:
based on... err... a feeling.
Evolution is based on facts (evidence in the fossil record)
comparison to proven principles (a farmer selectively breeds his livestock for the best specimens - the meatiest cow, the fastest horse - could nature not do the same?)
Creationism is based on a book written thousands of years ago when knee length beards were still a strong look. It is based on no facts whatsoever.
Can any ANY creationist out there supply any facts to back up their version of events. Because I have yet to see that. I see a lot of squabbling, a lot of well-reasoned, well-informed arguments from the evolution side of the coin, but, from the gormless side, just a lot of vitriolic "Darwinists hide fears!" type comments, and sweeping statements without any factual support, like, "a prof or teacher can no longer stand in front of a classroom and talk about [evolution] without being made to feel as if he were in a Rodney Dangerfield movie, hearing snickering in the room, and seeing eyes roll back. That's starting to happen here and there now." (Both the ever-entertaining Gunga incidently - Viva la Gunga!)
Seriously, do you have anything like a "theory", as defined above, of creationism?
Its always fun to inspect how gunga tries to repackage the same ole tripe.
iamsam82 wrote:Can any ANY creationist out there supply any facts to back up their version of events. Because I have yet to see that.
Creationists can only play the cards they are dealt, and they have nothing. So their only choices are to bluff and/or change the rules of the game. And they consistently try both.
iamsam82 wrote:I really don't understand how BigTexn can suggest that "faith" and "theory" (and half a dozen other diverse words) are interchangeable words.
BigTexn seems to have disappeared. We haven't heard from him in quite a while.
Probably settled down to a quiet married life with his sister.