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Symposium on Pre-Primary & Primary School Education & Primary School Students Chess Tournament More information at: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-January/068222.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- "Fr. Ivo da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have to learn how to defend our faith in God. > I think what theists such as Christians, Muslims and Hindus, and atheists such as Jains, Buddhists, New Atheists and Secular Humanists, need to learn is to show some intellectual honesty in defending their faith. They cannot affirm their agreement with the consensus view that science cannot prove or disprove the existence of a deity, and in the same breath claim that modern science provides evidence for their own version of god(s) or his/her/their absence. Unfortunately, this is what is being done repeatedly on Goanet and elsewhere by some authors. Before the present instance, there was the case of Dinesh D'Souza (posted here by someone) who claimed in his latest book that the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution prove the existence of the Christian God. There are other kinds of ridiculous books published by Hindus, Buddhists and New Atheists touting the fiction that modern scientific findings support their particular views. What would it take for these people to respect the simple truth with some degree of consistency and honesty that science by its very nature is indifferent to their parochial religious beliefs? Cheers, Santosh