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        <title>yeah i know — boards.ie - Now Ye&#039;re Talkin&#039;</title>
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        <title>People of science and intelligent design.</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yeah, another religious thread. Untwist your knickers.<br /><br />
I'm copying this from a post I just made in the LTI forum as I feel it's more suited to here.<br /><br />
This is what happened when I attended my first diabetic day clinic today:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68716514" rel="nofollow">http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68716514</a>
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<div>No, I'm scared because my doctor has a firm belief in intelligent design.<br />
How do I know this?<br />
She asked if she could ask me a personal question during my physial exam. No problem, says I.<br /><br />
"Are you Catholic?", she asked.<br />
I told her that I'm not, but that I was raised as Catholic.<br /><br />
What followed was 20 minutes of fairly deep discussion on how the Universe was created, God's part or lack thereof, morality and the Human condition.<br /><br />
I quite enjoy this kind of discussion. It's rare that I partake in it as it's usually with my friends, and they're not really interested, so it ends up being one sided with them agreeing with my arguments in order to shut me up.<br /><br />
Heh. Just flicking around and there's a documentary on something similar on RTÉ2 now (mostly Darwin).<br /><br />
Anyway, it was all going well until she tried to equate rape and murder to someone stealing food in order to stay alive on the grounds that we are a selfish species. Her point was that everything we do is for our own benefit, therefore a person gaining sexual gratification through rape is no different to someone stealing a loaf of bread to sate their hunger.<br /><br />
I argued that they are completely different actions, and have nothing at all in common, but she countered this by asking me where I got my morals from. I said that I got them when I was growing up, and she retorted by saying that this was because of my Catholic upbringing.</div>
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Now she was an extremely intelligent person (although when I brought up Altruism later she didn't seem to know what it meant, but I'll put this down to English not being her first language) and put forward a valid argument, but the only thing that will cause me to believe in any higher power is visible, audio and tactile proof which has no been brought about by hallucinogenic substances (which was another argument I put forth for people seeing God and the like).<br /><br />
So what say you, good people of AH (and the feckers too. I don't want to discriminate). Do you find that people of science who believe in intelligent design have conflicting interests?<br /><br /><br />
Also, that thing on RTÉ (which is over now) mentioned that it was an Irish bishop who decided that the Earth is 6,000 years old.<br />
I googled it and found this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher</a><br /><br />
On behalf of the nation of Ireland I would like to apologise to all sane citizens of the U.S.A. (and that includes all religious moderates) for giving you creationism.<br />
I'd like to, but I'm not going to.<br />
Dude was an Anglo-Irish CoI protestant, so I'm blaming the English on this one. <img src="https://www.boards.ie/resources/emoji/smile.png" title=":)" alt=":)" height="20" />]]>
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