Posted on 06/23/2007 11:40:14 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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Previously posted in 3 AD by Plotinus.
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Man’s recognition of God’s creation has a very, very long pedigree...from the dawn of recorded history all the way to the present. Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, is a much more recent phenomenon, and yet it has managed to stay ETERNALLY out of date.
You’ll get no arguments from me. Very well said.
Great post. Thanks.
My pleasure. I just read the article a second time, and it hit me with even more force than the first time around.
Plotinus was merely translating Plato into Latin, and that went way back before the dawn of recorded history. There are 35,000 years to account for and only about 6000 of that is written record. Oral tradition has to cover the rest.
“George Gilder has been famous in the United States for more than three decades. ‘
Another famous person I’ve never heard of. And for thirty years, too. Gee, you’d think you’d hear of a famous person over a span that long.
” this doesn’t exclude the possibility that behind the fog is a divinity that we, through our faith, might worship.’
Yes, that’s the first thing that comes to me when I see a fog — do you suppose there’s something back there for me to worship? LOL
I never heard of him, but then Nixon's speeches weren't so hot either. Top-down means that's the model you fit everything to, not the other way around like this scholar syas.
Heh heh heh!
==Yes, thats the first thing that comes to me when I see a fog do you suppose theres something back there for me to worship? LOL
That’s what you do every time you bow down and worship your natural selection god.
Ah, you’re right, I was just funnin’ ya. We both know the probability as opposed to the possibility of there being a flying spaghetti monster back there, or anything else, is miniscule.
==Ah, youre right, I was just funnin ya. We both know the probability as opposed to the possibility of there being a flying spaghetti monster back there, or anything else, is miniscule.
Thus your neo-pagan nature worship.
But you see, when the sun comes out, ie, the light of empirical understanding, it pierces the fog revealing no object of worship at all, reminding us that throwing up our hands in the face of things we don’t presently understand and crying, “God did it!” leads to gods of gaps and the early truncation of inquiries that might have actually led to something worthwhile.
Asatru (Norse Paganism) * | |
Druidism | |
Goddess Worship | |
Wicca and Witchcraft Nope, sorry. Not into any of those. |
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