From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 17:04:33 BST
Very witty Platt, but this is not a fair coin ...
As I said a couple of days ago, the fact that "the theory of evolution" is
not (fully) testable and falsifiable shouldn't make "the fairy tale of
creation / resurrection" equally fair game, at least not amongst adults.
Playful point scoring based on that notion is fair game for amusing debate,
but hardly a serious call to take fairy tales seriously (beyond metaphor
anyway).
There are a zillion options between "pre-ordained life" and "accidental
sentient meat", and I'me getting very tired of this being treated as a
binary debate, even in jest.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>; <owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: MD On Faith
> On 13 Oct. msh wrote:
>
> > The confusion you're all struggling with here arises because,
> > somewhere in time, whomever introduced you to religion (nay, poured
> > religion into your brains) forgot to mention this subtle distinction, if
> > even they were aware of it. The result is you have a bunch of fully
grown
> > adults going around thinking, for example, that some guy actually walked
on
> > water, multiplied loaves and fishes, was crucified, died, and was
buried...
> > then rose from the dead. This makes for a lot of heavy back unloading
of
> > bs in the later years.
>
> As a result of the scientific worldview, we have a bunch of fully grown
> adults (a bit of redundancy there) going around thinking, for example,
> that existence accidentally arose from a mathematical abstraction, life
> accidentally emerged from dirt, and consciousness accidentally
> materialized from a lump of meat. By comparison, resurrection appears
> infinitely reasonable. :-)
>
> Platt
>
>
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