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To: Kleon

Well, of coarse, it is your hope that people will listen to you rather than to the ID evidences so far. The priests of the pagan religions in Rome went nutso when Christianity drew away their followers in droves. It's understandable. If nobody is following, where was their money to come from. The evos are watching the similar situation in science. They are now pagan priests protesting the loss of their livelihoods made off false gods. Get over it.


87 posted on 09/01/2005 6:37:03 PM PDT by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade. Hang the traitors high)
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To: Havoc

Hello Havoc:

I have a possible insight that I wanted to run past you. The root word for science is knowledge. The root word for mystery is covered knowledge, and the root word for Babylon is from the Tower of Babel, which was essentially the tower of knowledge. When men built the Tower of Babel, they had started to worship their own works as if they were gods. It is possible that this Scientism is what the Bible calls the world-wide religion, "Mystery, Babylon".

On Patrick Henry's Listolinks is one of Ichneumon posts as a mega-thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457027/posts?page=401#401

This is a very good description of someone wandering through a modern day tower of Babel.

excerpt:
I recently went to a large university library in order to find a copy of a paper I couldn't get online (and PubMed, an online database of biology-related research papers, has over TWELVE MILLION papers cataloged). The archived biology journals filled the second, and half of the third floors of the library. Each volume of bound journals held around a thousand pages, and was the size of a big-city phone book. Each shelf held about twenty volumes in a row. Each 8-foot-tall rack held eight shelves. There were about twenty five racks to a row (fifty when you count both sides of the "aisle"), they were *really* long. It was a chore hiking up and down them. There were about seventy rows. I got lost in them several times. And that was just the one floor, there were more upstairs.
And of course, those weren't all the journal articles, just the ones from the biggest journals, and not a lot of the ones published in languages other than English.
*That's* the kind of magnitude of evidence we're talking about. You could hike into those stacks, walk as long as you like, and then pull out a volume at random and flip it open to any page you chose, and I'd make money betting you that if the exact page you chose didn't contain a study providing supporting evidence for evolution, flipping 2-3 pages on either side would. You could literally spend the rest of your life trying to read it all, and not make it through a fraction of it.




88 posted on 09/02/2005 10:56:02 AM PDT by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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