On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:30:25 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote: > > And this is interesting because?
Duplication can be seen as a kind of asexual reproduction. That we see biological phenomena related to this is perhaps not surprising, but removing what we may hold to be the "sexual material level" from reproduction and succession of individuals and generations, weakly confirms a platonic intuition of things. And that is part of Jesus' PR machine. When it comes to Samiya's page there is a mixing of scientific facts/observations from a wide variety of fields (which itself is already arguably problematic) with, as Samiya has indicated repeatedly, a perhaps overly literal interpretation of personal theology. My worry is the usual one concerning such mixing: that universally recognized facts are used improperly to justify theology, when most people on this list would recognize the common problem with that: it's how people are often manipulated. Milking of unrelated truths is perhaps better evidence for a lack of faith in the concerned areas and attitudes, rather than "sound theological proof" which is closer to misunderstanding theology. Pairing scientific jargon and theology doesn't suffice: the scientist/mystic has to provide evidence of *how* the different areas of study can be reconciled, if they can be brought into the same framework of assumptions/hypothesis/definitions/theory. Then theology can be practiced with a critical, scientific mindset, without falling into ideological traps, but this isn't easy. The questions are comp related. I don't know why you *wouldn't* find it interesting as somebody who has written on duplication in comp context, even if you don't buy Samiya's take. PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
