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Thinkin' Gal: I thoroughly enjoyed your post to Cvengr regarding "calculation." It got me started thinking along some divergent lines. See what you think. I began this thread presuming to ask "How highly do you value reason?" Given the posts of some of the deepest thinkers on this web site, I'd say pretty highly. But in researching this question further, I began to wonder why human reason has - or even should have - the preeminence it does, and what God thinks of it. How highly does God value human reason? In order to better answer this question, I ...

I have a brief test I'd like you all to take. read the following statements, and see if you agree or disagree with them. Reason represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams. Reason represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit. Reason represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates. Reason represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for "psychic vampires." Reason represents man as just another animal sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours--who, because of his divine spiritual and intellectual development, has become the most vicious animal ...

"The Tyranny of Rationalism" As I reread the article on post-modernist education that Garbanzo put up, something of a glaring contradiction struck me in Garbanzo's (and the article's) position. The problem I sensed was that while the writer of this article - and Garbanzo - bemoan the tendency of the post-modernist to exclude information that might culturally offend someone, even if true, on the grounds that reality is not subjective, then how can it be that Garbanzo, who fancies himself a champion of reason, chooses to ignore reality when presented to him? Consider the following: On part one of ...

In the interest of continuing this discussion for those whose servers are "less evolved," I've started this new thread, specifically to address some of the last few issues raised by the first thread. If you want the background to this thread, click here: Scientists Find 15-Million-Year-Old Pre-Human In Kenya. As I must leave for my golf vacation, I cannot address these points as fully now as I wish. However, the following points do need to be addressed: Evolution is not empirical science because it cannot be verified, tested, recreated or observed to be happening now. Any evidence to its ...