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To: James C. Bennett; bvw

Are you an evolutionist by education or training?

Are you an scientist by education or training?


269 posted on 01/17/2011 12:42:25 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Are you an evolutionist by education or training?

That's like asking if someone is Jewish by education or training. Evolutionism is a religion.

270 posted on 01/17/2011 12:43:43 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: metmom
Are you an evolutionist by education or training?

Are you an scientist by education or training?

Let these remain a mystery. Now, back to what was asked...

275 posted on 01/17/2011 12:49:04 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: metmom

FWIW I was taught design evolution in engineering courses and studied physics in college. And logic in mathematics.

Of course we also were taught the old school “worship” of Darwin and his evolution in cell-based life and in fossil geology. I wasn’t until I took anthropology in college, that I realized what a crock “science” can be, and in the Physics Department up close I learned about fads and grant-chasing behavior in science. “Big Science.”

Only recently have I connected that grant-seeking behavior in academia to what economists have labeled “rent-seeking” behavior.

I have come to discover that I am and always have been, evidently strongly anti-rent seeking on a core philosophical level, at the same time I have learned that yes, there is a G-d, and we are beholden to him and are, in a deep sense of our lifetime on this earth — nothing more than rent-seeking.

Still, I appreciate that G-d made this world so that we can have some fondness and delight for making our own way, no matter how much of an illusion that all may be. And as illusions go it has a awful lot of frustration and aggravation in it.

In every moment the world, by G-d’s ever-immanence in it, we each individually experience is the best possible thing for each of us. That’s a useful even if taken only as a postulate, like the postulate that says all angles in triangle add up 180 degrees. It is far more than a postulate though, but by means of raw Bertrand Russell style logic that is all it can be.

Where does a man find the transcendental “Fear of G-d”? Perhaps only by looking inward, in his own being and soul, for I do not think it can be forced upon a man, not by any order forced upon him, of adherence to any stated doctrine, of even induced by logic.

It is, I think, “Fear of G-d” that makes the postulate of G-d — that first of of the Ten Commandments — alive to a man beyond mere acceptance as a postulate of a doctrine.

You can lead a Bertrand Russell to water (not easily, for a amazingly intelligence can be dwarfed by an ego) but you can’t make him drink. The water is only found in his own inner oasis.


282 posted on 01/17/2011 1:35:12 PM PST by bvw
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