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To: gobucks
Wow. Evolution is being compared to magic? That is a step in the right direction....

No. He means science and technology sound like magic to a lot of people and that they are not choosing science.

But that's fine by me. I don't care if people believe it's magic.

What's infuriating is to see so many people ignore the success of one kind of magic (science) and overlook the failures of religious magic, like the incantation, "in the name of Jesus...".

"In the name of Jesus", didn't put man on the moon, it didn't wipe out smallpox, it didn't sequence the genome, it didn't allow voices and data to travel thousands of miles around the world in milliseconds.

Science is the magic that works. Most other magic is a failure.

4 posted on 10/16/2005 12:11:16 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: mc6809e

"Science is the magic that works."

Keep saying that ... maybe chanting it will help?


6 posted on 10/16/2005 12:20:39 PM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
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To: mc6809e

God (in whom I believe, though that is irrelevant here) is simply a name for what people do not, cannot, or will not understand.


7 posted on 10/16/2005 12:23:56 PM PDT by cloud8
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To: mc6809e
I fervently hope you have a change of heart before you breathe your last and step off into eternity, my friend. Living with one's ultimate faith and hope resting in the paltry capabilities of mankind is as depressing and frightful an existence as I can imagine.

Whether you believe or not has utterly no bearing on the reality of this situation, which is that God most certainly exists and most certainly came to Earth in the form of Jesus. I've seen real, tangible things in my life as a direct result of prayer, things that were mathematically impossible outside divine intervention. I don't think God exists. I know He does.

You, mc6809e, will kneel before Him someday and acknowledge that He is Lord. It's unavoidable.

Accept Him and what He did for you, and enjoy an unimaginably wonderful eternity. Reject Him, and it's gonna be unimaginably horrific.

Man went to the moon. God made the moon.

MM

81 posted on 10/16/2005 8:55:46 PM PDT by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: mc6809e
What's infuriating is to see so many people ignore the success of one kind of magic (science) and overlook the failures of religious magic, like the incantation, "in the name of Jesus...".

"In the name of Jesus", didn't put man on the moon, it didn't wipe out smallpox, it didn't sequence the genome, it didn't allow voices and data to travel thousands of miles around the world in milliseconds.

Having a cell phone strapped to your ear doesn't give a person an ounce of character. Worshiping Science leaves people wanting, and tears down a great Constitutional Republic built on the blood of men and woman of Character.

161 posted on 10/19/2005 9:39:33 AM PDT by bondserv (God governs our universe and has seen fit to offer us a pardon. †)
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