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Subject:Re: What does the Fossil Record support?... quotes from Carl Sagan and Coffin
Date:Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:32:13 -0700
From:"Frank Reichenbacher" <vesuvius@speakeasy.net>
Newsgroups:alt.talk.creationism,alt.religion.jehovahs-witn,alt.astronomy,sci.bio.paleontology,talk.atheism

"David G. Nagel" <nagel@core.com> wrote in message
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> Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> > "JaBrIoL" <Jabriol@excite.com> wrote in message
> > news:d222de3e.0309250532.2bf8ccb5@posting.google.com...
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> >>"Zachriel" <angel@zachriel.com> wrote in message
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> > news:<usscb.13752$1V3.236782735@twister2.starband.net>...
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> >>>"Frank Reichenbacher" <frank@bio-con.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:_KucnZhxP7TNzO-iXTWc-g@speakeasy.net...
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> > <snip>
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> >  > Sagan is obviously making a rhetorical argument *against* the common
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> >>>conceptions of a Great Designer in regards to biological evolution.
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> >>>>Frank
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> >>Sagan was falling into: "why did god not make everything perfect"
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> >>he forget about tools used by a designer.  a ladder used to build a
> >>roof on a house does not become part of the house, it put away or
> >>discarded.
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> >
> > Are you saying God is little more than a carpenter? Why would God be
limited
> > to any particular set of tools? Is He all powerful or not?
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> What's wrong with being a carpenter?


What part of, "Are you saying God is little more than a carpenter?"
indicates that I think there is something wrong with being a carpenter?

Frank



 His Son was one.
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> Dave Nagel
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> >>using biological entities to prepare an atmosphere, and discard later
> >>is not uncommon to terraformer theorists, thw quote does however
> >>demostrate design, if other factors based on his personal opinions did
> >>not get into the way..
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> > So you don't really believe in the omnipotence of the Supreme Being?
Does
> > that make him just a Better Than Average Being?
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> > Frank
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> >>It is like being an agonostic: a just-in-case atheist
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