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I don't know how that follows.
At least, no more so than that I don't believe in gravitational force, or electrons. The history of reality is what it is. The question is what reality is.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:52, archived)
'independent existence of physical matter '

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:54, archived)
Wait...you don't believe in gravity?

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:54, archived)
Physical matter is an artifact,
it is our own human interpretation of sense data. So is gravity. The sense data is consistent in certain ways, is all we can say. We label where it comes from as "physical matter" but that is just a metaphysical brick wall.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:01, archived)
Is this not sort of turning into the question of 'what is consciousness' rather than a discussion about religion?

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:03, archived)
"What is consciousness" is a vital question in religion.
But "self reference" is a central concept. Or to put the problem concisely, "how does reality bootstrap?"
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:09, archived)
Can we come back to the initial question of whether or not you believe in evolution?

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:18, archived)
Believe is too strong a word.
I don't doubt it. But it doesn't have a great deal of impact on my theology. Although I've lately started to come round to the idea that evolution is theologically significant in a positive way.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:23, archived)
So you don't believe God created man in his own image and all that?
How old do you believe the Earth to be?
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:25, archived)
We are created in God's image,
this gets complex. I fear it may be beyond the remit of the side of the page.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:32, archived)
That's why I put the links up the top.
If we are created in God's image, why do we have so many imperfections? Surely God is perfect and therefore so must we be?
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:37, archived)
And in what image is every other animal created in?

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:39, archived)
I wonder,
at this point, whether by "image" you are thinking "physical appearance". This is not the case. It is the mental image I speak of, such faculties as powers of reason and creativity, which beasts may possess in some small measure but reached increasing fulfillment as evolution progressed.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:43, archived)
In that case, why would God have given me the means to reject the idea of him?
That doesn't sound like something an intelligent designer would do.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:46, archived)