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==I am so humbled!==
==I am so humbled!==
Maybe I should have done [[Genesis]] the way you did [[Leviticus]]. Good job! [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 20:19, 18 March 2007 (EDT)
Maybe I should have done [[Genesis]] the way you did [[Leviticus]]. Good job! [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 20:19, 18 March 2007 (EDT)
== Thanks for your note ==
CWilson, I thank you for the thorough note you left on my user wall. I regret that I was not able to answer, due to the fact that I was temporarily banned for disagreeing with [[User:Conservative|Conservative]]. Such is life.
I would never insult your faith, nor would I try to argue against your own personal beliefs. I respect your choice to take all of your knowledge from the Bible, and I think it is a fine way to structure one's personal and private religion faith. You seem to accept that there are challenges that are out there to biblical literalism, challenges which you have consciously chosen to discount, ignore, or disbelieve. Again, this is a valid personal choice of yours.
I draw the line, however, with forcing the idea on others that your worldview, which you conceded is limited, is complete. While you are willing to end your own inquiry at a certain point, it is unacceptable to demand as a result that all others end their own inquiries at that point, and specifically, you cannot expect others to take as fact what you take merely on ''faith''. Faith is personal and private; facts are not. Facts are objective. Holding your faith as objectively true demeans my own choice about where to end my inquiry, extends beyond your actual knowledge on the subject, and compromises the private nature of your faith.
I accept that you are willing to trust your "trusted friend" the Bible over scientific sources that seem to discount its literal truth. But it is your choice to do so. Shouldn't you allow others to make the same choice, though? And if you admittedly don't know the other side of the story - the scientific side - do you think you should be holding your own private faith as objective fact? You need to admit that your beliefs are based only on faith (which again, is a valid source of personal belief) and stop trying to argue for their objective factuality absent actual knowledge to that effect.
I hope I made the distinction between personal faith and objective truth plain. Again, feel free to accept your view of young earth creationism on faith. Just don't claim that it's fact unless you know objectively that it is.--[[User:AmesG|AmesG]] 09:54, 19 March 2007 (EDT)