[KoRn]

"which must have had outboard motors and lots of petrol, to drop off the kangaroos in Australia and the kiwis and tuataras in New Zealand, and still make it back in time to Mt Ararat for the floods to settle down"

Interesting thought.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Interesting thought.

About the kangaroos and the kiwis, animals only found on islands/continents in the South Pacific (which is a very very big place)...

I’m a Christian and I do believe in the Bible. A part of that requires me to believe in a universal flood that covers the entire world to a depth of some 29,000 feet (the height of Mt Everest) and it then requires me to believe that all the animals in the world were somehow on a big wooden boat.

I’ll swallow all of that on Faith. Dropping off the Kangaroos and Kiwis and tuataras in the South Pacific would have been a really big logistical exercise. Floating accidentally down to NZ and Australia would have taken a fair wee while. And dropping deadly poisonous snakes and spiders off only in OZ and not in NZ. And dropping off Weta bugs only in NZ and not in OZ. Then then finding its way under no power (presumably by prevailing currents?) back to Mt Ararat...?

It is at this point that Faith and Reason might part company. I happily exist in both worlds because I’ve decided it is perfectly OK to be a human contradiction, and that there is no requirement to be consistent or to have everything balance out and have debits equal credits.

Who says everything must make sense, everything must be explained? And who says that Reason is the best way to do that? I don’t.

Reason says there are no ghosts. I have seen a ghost. Nobody can persuade me otherwise. Reason does not support the paranormal: I believe in the Paranormal. And I believe in Reason.

The Indians believed in the Great Spirit: I have a Sioux Indian blood brother and I believe in the Great Spirit and have felt its presence in the wilds.

The Maori believe in similar paranormals, like Tu the Warrior Spirit. I have been in the bush in NZ and I feel that there is a Presence. And nothing will persuade me that Tu is not present when Maori Warriors are doing the Haka as if they mean it.

None of this has anything to do with Reason.

The Spiritual world has a very legitimate place in our lives. To some extent it can co-exist with the world of Science, Reason and Logic. Neither is more important than the other. Neither trumps the other. One day they may be co-explained and reconciled.

But I don’t need for that to happen to happily participate in both worlds.

As the antient Scottish doggerel goes:

“On Earth and Sky and Sea
Straynge Thynges There Be...”

Cheers
*DieHard*