On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:36:32 PM UTC-4, John K Clark wrote: > > > > I disagree, I don't like it. You are assuming that there exists a > organized field of knowledge called "theology", but I can not find the > slightest evidence that is in fact true. Lawrence Krauss said that it is > his habit to ask every theologian he meets "what advances in theology have > been made in the last 400 years?", but he has never received a straight > answer from a single one of them, the best he has gotten was "what do you > mean by advances?". A expert in mathematics or physics or biology or > literature or ANY other field would not give a weasel answer like that, > they'd just rattle off a list of advances, but not theology. >
Then we should stop teaching Newtonian physics as well, since there are no new advances there either. How about 'Anything that I deem unimportant should be eliminated.'? Do you detect any flaw in that reasoning? Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/86-Bb30kCxcJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
