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In article <1993Jan11.115114@IASTATE.EDU> danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.232424.20345@cs.unca.edu>, kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu
>(Brad Kepley) writes:
>
>Grant Edwards>>>
>
> The church demands that it's pronouncements be believed without doubt
>or evidence.  Science doesn't make that demand.
>
>Dan Ashlock>>
>   Speaking as an atheist and secular humanist I must take some issue with this
>statement.  Theologians in many churches argue til they're blue in the face,
>doubt things all over the place, and pile up mountians of historical and
>cultural evidence.  Likewise bible study groups often have ferocious arguments
>in which doubt runs rampant and evidence of all sorts is presented.
>
>Brad Kepley>
> 
>   Yes, Malcomb Muggeridge said that only Atheists had no doubts.
>
>Dan Ashlock:
>
>   Was that a stupid cheap shot or merely stupid?  You said so little I can't
>tell...
>
>   ...in any case Malcomb was wrong.  My point was that religious people do
>doubt (religious scientists do it as well as scientists for some reason :})
>just like the rest of us.  What on earth was you point?
>
>Dan
>Danwell@IASTATE.EDU

Sheesh...take it easy huh Dan?  Call it what you want, I just thought it was
an open admission by a Christian that he had doubts.  Many people act like
Christians are so robot-like. OK?