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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Sam Bam
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:20
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James Beck wrote:
> In article <cuqs9j$ktr$1@news.ucar.edu>, pack@eos.ucar.edu says...
> 
>>In article <SI5Qd.2155637$f47.378244@news.easynews.com>,
>>Sam Bam  <sam@bam.slam> wrote:
>>.......
>> 
>>
>>>What about Lucy? Just another partial find of some primate, put together to look like a human ancestor? Could
>>>the wide separation of Lucy's bones (200 feet by 1 mile) better point to a catastrophic scenario - such as a
>>>world wide flood?
>>
>>One does not generalize the findings at a single site
>>into a world-wide flood without more evidence.
>>
>>
> 
> As usual, the "church" fights tooth and nail to avoid the obvious 
> contradictions in their teachings.  

Oh?

Did they try and piece scattered fossils into a whole?

> Why don't they just brand all of the 
> evolutionists heritics and threaten them with torture, death, or both.  

Because this is the 21st century, try joining it you oaf.

> It seems to have worked for them in the past.  

And we're all condemned to do *only* what we did in the past, right?

> I think a good first step 
> would be for the Christians to admit that the Bible was written by men 
> and as such it is subject to the biases and knowledge of the time.  
> 
>                              Jim

I think that the fact there are numerous revisions of the Bible handily 
supports that.
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