On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:43 AM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > And there are people who know that they will lose a reasonable debate > and therefore deliberately sabotage reasonable debate by using lies > and illogic and any other dirty tricks they can come up with instead > of reasonable debate.
I hope you can deal with the fact that I pretty much agree, though I generally am wary of generalizations. When people try to use science to defend their religious beliefs, the science almost inevitably is poor. For me, faith has to do with the inexplicable and uncontrollable. I guess I'm particularly dismayed when people regard a scientific explanation -- evolution is the prime example -- as a threat to their faith. That makes zero sense to me. Now that I think of it, there's sort of an opposite kind of childish thinking that dismays me. I was at a friend's funeral last week and his town's mayor said something like, "God must have needed another angel and he wanted one of the best." Ack! When I hear people say stuff like that, William, I can totally understand why you and others find religion offensive. The idea that a Supreme Being caused a motorcycle to kill my friend because He needed an angel... that's insane. My wife called it spiritual immaturity. She's quicker than I am to find compassion. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
