Chilling Christian expression

WorldNetDaily ^ | April 30, 2002 | David Limbaugh

[drstevej]

Great job David.

[gcruse]

(as if creationism is inherently incompatible with science)

Actually, it is.

[drstevej]

Feel free to make your case & others can evaluate.

[weikel]

Creationism as one poster said is just another word for I don't understand it completely so God did it.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

I don't get the whole creationism/evolution debate. I believe in evolution, but that doesn't change the end result. Either God made us at one time or it took a little longer, and He knows what He did. I'm not going to worry about it.

[gcruse]

Creationism as one poster said is just another
word for I don't understand it completely so God did it.

And the more I understand, the less need there
is to postulate God for the remaining gaps.  A
Calculus of Progress might be,  "The predictive
power of reason gets larger and larger as
superstition approaches zero."

[drstevej]

"And the more I understand..."

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Just what percent of all knowledge do you possess?

85%

50%

20%

2%

less than .1%

other

[weikel]

Well I do believe in an eternal "uncaused cause" of existence which I call God but other than causing existence little else can be attributed.

[weikel]

Given that knowledge is infinite and that possessed by any human is finite less than .1% an infinitesmal amount.

[gcruse]

Without knowing the denominator, a fraction, and thus a percentage, cannot be known. That doesn't mean the numerator does not increase over time.

[drstevej]

"And the more I understand [currently less than .1%], the less need there is to postulate God for the remaining gaps...."

[drstevej]

I misread weikel's post as yours. Sorry. Should I give you higher than .1% rating???

[LarryLied]

Creationism as one poster said is just another word for I don't understand it completely so God did it.

Science doesn't give any better answer either.

[gcruse]

Maybe this. The amount of god in the physics of the 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th plotted against time might be an indication of how much we know compared to how much we think there is to be known. You might read the curve out to where god=0 and then see how much knowledge there should be.

[freebilly]

Without knowing the denominator, a fraction, and thus a percentage, cannot be known. That doesn't mean the numerator does not increase over time.

A speck of dust on a grain of sand on an infinite beach is impressed that his knowledge is increasing.

Let me know when you're overwhelmed by your ignorance. At that point you may be willing to actually learn something.

[gcruse]

12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries, that is. :)

[weikel]

Its better than making non self evident postulates.

[weikel]

Well knowledge will probably approach an asymtote at some point the cause of all existence I doubt is something science can ever determine however how Humans came into being within that existence is definitely possible to know.

[gcruse]

You characterization of some kind of abject ignorance of the human race is, I think, overstated and in any case, says nothing about the necessity of a supreme being.