[SNIP]
>I can only testify to my own experience: the cumulative weight of
>years of being bothered by many different difficulties led to me
>realizing that the standard explanations were simply too complicated,
>too baroque to accept, like a Ptolemaic astronomer turning away from
>his multiplicity of epicycles and deciding it was simpler just to
>believe Kepler.
Brian:
I agree. And that is eventually what began my turn-around from believer to un-believer.
Most fundies seem to think, as Till has mentioned more than once, that if they can come up with any possible explanation or ad hoc argument that, somehow, they have done away with any problem. Thank God (if you'll pardon the momentary lapse) that, even when I was a believer, I never felt that way -- what I wanted was STRONG evidence that problems I saw were only imaginary. Since there was no such evidence forthcoming, the problems held sway.
Don (dmorgan@pacificrim.net)
"Faith is an absolutely marvelous tool. With faith there is no question too big for even the smallest mind."
- Rev. Donald Morgan (b. 1933) "Atheist theologian"