Posted on 04/29/2002 10:09:02 PM PDT by drstevej
Got any idea of how much God you find in physics in each period?
Is the curve subject to extrapolation?
When God=0 on the curve, what would you suggest He do? Apologize? Hide?
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“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” – Isaac Newton
What did the Tooth Fairy do when you found out the truth?
It's bedtime for this bonzo. Goodnite, folx.
Don't forget to say your prayers. :))
Amen! By the way Delay is my congressman!
The fool hath said in his heart there is not God'(Ps.14:1)
The NY Slimes doesn't want to close the door on the possibility of having Jihad-based camps funded with taxpayer money. Hence, their reticence in denouncing gov't funded "faith-based" Programs. Very simply, the New York Times will promote any avenue to tyrrany.
In California now there is a fight between literalists or providentialists, and biological theorists. And you get in the textbooks both Genesis and Darwinian evolutionism as two "theories" of evolution. You see what that really means? The fundamentalist theologians in California (fundamentalism was well established there at the beginning of the century) don't know what a myth is. They believe it is a theory. They're in ignorance.And the biological theorists don't know that Kant has analysed why one cannot have an immanentist theory of evolution. One can have empirical observation but no general theory of evolution because the sequence of forms is a mystery; it just is there and you cannot explain it by any theory. The world cannot be explained. It is a mythical problem, so you have a strong element of myth in the theory of evolution.
So both the theoretical evolutionists and the fundamentalist theologians are illiterate. That level of illiteracy is taught in the text books as "two theories", neither one of which is a theory.
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"evolution, akin to religion, involves making certain a priori or metaphysical assumptions, which at some level cannot be proven empirically." -- Dr Michael Ruse
Ideologies, whether Positivist, or Marxist, or National Socialist, indulge in constructions that are intellectually not tenable. That raises the question of why people who otherwise are not quite stupid, and who have the secondary virtues of being quite honest in their daily affairs, indulge in intellectual dishonesty as soon as they touch science.
That ideology is a phenomenon of intellectual dishonesty is beyond a doubt, because the various ideologies after all have been submitted to criticism, and anybody who is willing to read the literature knows that they are not tenable, and why. If one adheres to them nevertheless, the prima facie assumption must be that he is intellectually dishonest.
The overt phenomenon of intellectual dishonesty then raises the question of why a man will indulge in it. That is a general problem that in my later years required complicated research to ascertain the nature, causes, and persistence of states of alienation.
---- Whatta buncha bull.
Or, put another way, to not believe that God created Creation, you have to believe that something came from nothing.
Beats trying to figure out how big-L libertarians could possibly really believe in such things as "women's rights" --or-- each person's "right" to believe what they will about when a human life really begins --or-- how everyone's got a "right" to require that Religion, if not Pornography, be practiced strictly in private. That's the stuff that'll give you a headache.
How's tricks in Somalia's libertopia these days?
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