Posted on 10/06/2007 5:21:29 AM PDT by Victory111
The key word in the latest guidance offered to today’s students is “ignore.” Is it blatant, brazen or both to call for the use of ignorance to gain or retain knowledge? It is no secret that every deadly ideology of the past had to ignore the truth about a lot of things including itself for its survival and proliferation. Ignoring a message usually gives way to ignoring, abusing and then killing the messenger. History is replete with examples from both the ancient and the modern world.
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“The practice of ignoring one truth to raise the credence of another is called dogma. Dogma is not reason, it is not knowledge and it can never be referred to as universal.”
Boy, after this week, this statement sure explains the Demoncrats. Just ask Rush!
This guy is an idiot. I hope you’re not taking him at face value.
When science reverts to dogma it has ceased to be objective and it is not far from becoming dangerous if not deadly. By all accounts this is the point where science becomes pure dogma and highly religious.
A bit of irony: the author uses the stoning of the Apostle Stephen and then quotes Paul ("Yet, the Apostle Paul calls on reason " to bolster his piece.
Ummm - before Paul "became" Paul, he was Saul - the young Pharisee, Roman citizen and commander who spent 10 years hunting down, imprisoning and killing followers of "The Way" - as the followers of Jesus were first referred to. He consented to the stoning of Stephen - was in attendance - and from Acts 7:58, it is inferred that it was he who gave the consent. "And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him]: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul."
Later, Saul was to 'see the Light" and become Paul. Of course we have only Saul/Paul's word on this. He promptly declared himself an Apostle - didn't deign to go to Jerusalem to confer with the Apostles whom Jesus had personally chosen and taught both before and after the Crucifixion and to whom He left the earthly leadership of "The Way" (This first use of the word "Christians" was in in Antioch and from Paul.)
Well, anyway, I wonder that the author mightn't have used a better coupling to illustrate his theme of " abusing and then killing the messenger" LOL
Well, I guess that settles it; YOU have spoken.
Right.
And next we will be asked to believe that the Discovery Institute is actually making discoveries as well, staffed as it is with all those lawyers and PR flacks.
Not quite so prompt. Little matter of blindness, and thence after Ananias came at Jesus direction, healing him, he THENCE started his preaching at the synagogue (straightway) in Damascus came first, putting him on the assassination list of the rabbis as well...
Straightway. Is there any better evidence of the "Seeing is Believing" truism?
Well, I guess that settles it; YOU have spoken.lol... I could need a helmet, drool cup and a bib and still have more credibility than that moron. Did you actually read what he wrote?
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