Here's Another Exchange I Had With a Christian Scholar [Edited]

I had told him I was puzzled that he still believes. Here is what he said and my response:

I guess I'm as much puzzled that you could read something like Signature in the Cell and still believe--believe as you do, that is. Minimally, I don't see how you can be so assured when, minimally, the materialists are a LONG way away from even beginning to give an adequate response to the information problem. On THIS matter, at least, if we allow our commitment level to be commensurate with the evidence--though this principle is pragmatically impossible to enjoin at all levels--then "you still puzzle me" as to how you can think that, somehow, you're the exception--the only one who goes with the evidence.

Anyway, thanks for the implied concern of puzzlement. -:)

I responded:

If this DNA evidence you speak of is enough to believe then what about most of those people who accept Scientology (Nightline did an expose of them the last two nights) and who know nothing about it? Must they then read about it to believe? And why do most scientists not believe even though they know of this evidence? And then there's Hume's Stopper. No, you do not believe because of that Signature book, and you know it, because you believed BEFORE ever reading it or anything of an apologetical nature.

You asked me how sure I am right. There is no good positive evidence for Chrstianity, of that I'm sure (historical evidence is poor evidence and your God should have known this). There is only negative evidence, known as the god of the gaps. I am so sure I'm willing to risk Pascal's Wager on it. I'm sure in what I deny, that's for sure. I'm not all that sure about what I affirm.

I'm doing the best I can to reach brainwashed people like I once was. We need an intervention, but it can't be done face-to-face with people who love them and care for them, since most people they know are believers themselves. All I can do is write and edit books.

[Spoken in a hiss] You'll have no rest from me and my minions Bruhaaaahaaa. (Halloween ya know).