author@ptgbooks has been contributing to this blog on creationism. I have divided my posts into two: those dealing with the issue of whether it's reasonable to suppose the authors' Judeo-Christian God exists, and those dealing with whether creationism should be explicitly acknowledged in school science classes as something science has not disproved (which is what author wants). On the first issue: two posts ago I pointed out that evidence from design etc. is very weak evidence for the very specific god believed in by Christians (who is all-powerful and good), and that there is, in addition, very powerful evidence against the existence of that God supplied by the problem of evil/suffering. So, in terms of reasonableness, author's belief system looks very unreasonable indeed. In response, author comments that: (i) he doesn't want to focus on this issue (ii) that he has faith - i.e. "chooses to believe what God says" about his own goodness (iii) that the evidenc
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