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At one time I was a creationist, but in the light of further evidence in paleontology I was forced to change my mind. But if I still remained a creationist, I would not be true to myself or anybody else.
I do not have any faith in any one holy book, but I do have faith in the scientific method and the beauty of the scientific method is that it can change its mind in the light of new evidence. Where as the dogma in holy books like the Koran, Bible etc sticks rigidly to its dogma. If the world keeps going down that road then I am not at all optimistic on future of world peace, because there are millions of people just as passionate about the teachings of the Koran as the source of absolute truth as Billy Graham about the teachings of the Bible.
But if reason prevails and just treats these holy books not as absolute truth, but as just ordinary and profane text books that can be studied and analyzed like the complete works of Shakespeare as a part of humanities and anthropology and culture studies , then I am a lot more optimistic.
Now to change the pace a little and I asked the creationist "is the teaching of evolution a sin?" he would probably answer "yes" than asked him is "is greed a sin?" is "gluttony a sin?" is "is anger a sin?" is "lust a sin?" They will probably all answer "yes", but what they do in their private lives is a totally different ball game. As some of the tele-evangelists in the States are obscenely wealthy and greedy, and you only have to delve back to Jimmy Baker to know the this sincerity amongst the most of these so called men of God are really only laughing all the way to the bank as the rip off the gullible and ignorant. So I doubt if they are all they sincere the say they follow the Bible to the letter at all, and that includes their conviction to creationism.

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the beauty of the scientific method is that it can change its mind in the light of new evidence.

I can't agree more there. Although I would remain hesistant at claiming the usage of faith to believe the scientific method is valid.

Let's see if anyone brings up the "you can't empirically validate empiricism". You can't prove the validity of your senses by usage of your senses either. So what?

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I use the word "faith" far more loosely than way it is used by religious zealots. I usually have a pragmatic faith and certainly not the dogamtic faith of a Judeo Christian traditions.

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