Posted by Andy [65.123.82.41 - ] on 22 July 2002 at 11.39.53 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Trolls posted by Gremlin on 22 July 2002 at 04.44.54 ZuluTime:

I do not intend to be a toller. I have posted all information regarding the existence of a deity that I possess. If you do not interpret them in a like manner, then so be it. I must assume that you have not interpreted my information in the same way as I have, and this is personal preference I suppose. Relativism at work :-). My failure to concede that deities don't exist is because I still believe that they do. Just as you often say, it is impossible to disprove something's existence, only to declare it impossible to know from current evidence.

I was reading some posts from talk.origins and came across their posts of the month. Morton's Demon is the post to which I am referring. The demon here is very true, but I do not believe it is limited to YEC's like the author suggests. I believe each human has a demon. Every human filters the information based on prior bias. If a human claims to be unbaised, I would suspect that the person is either wrong in his claim or that he has not lived. If the person has not lived, how can he have experiences and knowledge with which to judge the presented information?

Again, this is not a fault with any particular person, it is a characteristic of the entire human race. It is also characteristic for each human to think himself right. I think that I am right in what I believe, you think you are right in what you believe. This is to be expected, if it were not so, we would not believe what we believe. This is why I am unable to take back my stance, because I am human.

I would like to explain why I formatted my first posts the way I did. I did so, becuase in reading through this website and through other similar ones, I noticed that quite a few arguments were scavanged over in regards to their spelling and grammer. In my mind, to argue against someone by picking over their spelling is like attempting to slay a dragon by giving it a manicure. The whole heart of the message is often ignored and the person deemed ignorant due to either a lack of knowledge or a lack of caring about their spelling and grammer. I took the idea to the extreme by intentionally using no formatting in my posts.