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Date Posted: 04:58:33 05/25/04 Tue
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Another "ad hominem"
In reply to: Mike K. 's message, "Another "ad hominem"" on 00:40:55 05/25/04 Tue

I agree with Tom in so far as he is right that a Christian should be extremely careful in adopting the "scientific" view so easily. In most cases it is merely a problem of the interpretation they give to their results. But this is the same in all sciences. Since there is a mutual agreement in the scientific community to reject the concept of a personal God (and thus also concepts like creation, like guilt, sin or salvation) they try to interpret everything in that God-less context.

On the other hand, the scientific findings themselves are mostly correct. This includes psychology. Christian counselors should at least know and account for modern psychology, though they should not adopt all of its interpretations and consequences of these interpretations.

A Christian biologist cannot simply reject all discoveries and results of modern Biology which is coined by the idea of evolution. Instead, one should try to separate where science is really science and where it starts to be a postmodern replacement of religion.

So Mike is also right when he says Christians should not simply reject scientific results and claims only because they were made by atheists, and yes, that has something to do with the ad hominem fallacy. The example with the Roman Catholics is also valid. Though the Roman Catholic church itself needs to be rejected because of its wrong theology, this does not mean that all of their teachings are wrong. So is the case with UBF.

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Re: Another "ad hominem" -- Tom Fosler, 07:26:49 05/25/04 Tue