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To: Stultis; Alamo-Girl; .30Carbine; metmom; hosepipe
I've pointed out that accepting a Doctrine of Creation, and therefore being a "creationist," is a characteristic of (serious) monotheists generally.

It also seems to be a characteristic of Platonic thought. See the Myth of the Demiurge (in Timaeus), where he "persuades" the Chora [pure nothingness, yet at the same time pure potentiality, before the Demiurge gets there to provide a "guide to the system," via peithos, persuasion. I.e., the Demiurge leaves the system "free," but points it in the direction of divine beauty and truth. He is engaging the Chora "on a divine mission," so to speak...]. From his activity, the "becoming things" that make our Cosmos are produced.

I do not think anyone has ever supposed that Plato was a "monotheist," at least not in the modern sense of that word. He continued to pay his respects to the cultic gods of his beloved polis, Athens; though it is sure he felt the "tugs" and "pulls" of the divinity, the "One God" Beyond the Cosmos [methinks the "Unknown God" of Acts], in his own psychic life on a regular personal basis....

Then again, as Alamo-Girl astutely noted earlier today, Panspermia Theory -- the theory that biological life was seeded here on Earth by "space aliens" -- is a creation myth also.

We've got all kinds of "creation" theories/myths going on out there in human Reality (abiogenesis would be one); and this sort of thing has been going on as long as human beings have; or at least, from the very beginning of humanly recorded time (history).

And so you propose to classify them all according to the same system that you propose as suitable for Islamofascists?

Why would you want to do that? It seems so unreasonable to me.... FWIW.

376 posted on 06/25/2007 6:16:34 PM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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To: betty boop
We've got all kinds of "creation" theories/myths going on out there in human Reality (abiogenesis would be one); and this sort of thing has been going on as long as human beings have; or at least, from the very beginning of humanly recorded time (history).

So very true! Thank you for all of your excellent essay-posts, dearest sister in Christ!

525 posted on 06/26/2007 9:32:58 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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