This might be of interest: https://islam-qna.blogspot.com/2016/02/back-to-future-why-old-testament-is.html
> On 03-Sep-2019, at 5:44 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I tend not to disagree with you concerning Islam (The Uma) doing > nothing about the Islamists, so that Kuffar lives (infidels) don't really > matter under Sharia Law; and no we shouldn't opt to live under their Dhimmi > Laws, in which we and our grandkids resign ourselves to permanent 2nd or 3rd > class status (If Pakistan is any example?). The Ahmadis within Islam don't > hold these values toward kuffar, and are hated by Sunni & Shia for their > 'disloyalty.' I can see religions evolving because of this Singularity > evolves, or errupts, as you have indicated below. My idea of a Singularity is > way different from most people familiar with the term. I think that when AI > gets harnessed more & more to the task of improving on, and creating wholly > new inventions, this will change human life forever. (For the better). > Minsky's brain in a box is nice, and good for stories and movies, but that is > a secondary or tertiary thing. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > To: Everything List <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Sep 2, 2019 11:16 am > Subject: Re: Quantum Foam > > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 9:57:43 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > My guess, even if "young Crowell" objects, is that religion confers an > evolutionary advantage to those so, deluded. Thus they, we, breed more > offspring with this psychological trait, whilst the socialists doth diminish, > hence, their mad- rush by progressives, worldwide, to embrace the Islamists > as their chums, those wielders of the jihad. Chief enemy? Oh, any nationalist > of any type will do. In any case, as it confers evolutionary advantage, the > religions will evolve in their own Darwinian fashion, because around these > regions, them's the rules! Nationalism, can surely be suicidal among the > pig-ignorant, but among the more nuanced it too, can be am effective tool of > survival. With religions tuned toward survival, even yes, postmortem, > survival, as illusionary, as this may be; this also is a good evolutionary > trait! May, the Spaghetti Monster guide thy path! > > > For subsistence people the distinction between nature and spirits or > supernature does not exist, and these provide a narrative framework for > communicating information about the environment. We more modern people no > longer really have a need for mythic thinking for survival, but it is still > there. It has been used as a way to control people and society. > > As someone on the more progressive side of things, I have mixed sense about > Islam. I am opposed to any mistreatment of Muslims, but I see the religion as > frankly pernicious. I read a translation of the Koran after 9/11 and frankly > the only book I ever read that shocked with as much ideological horror is > Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. During the cold war we did not permit Russian > communists to emigrate to the US if they refused to renounce communism. I can > almost see the same with Islam, but for our Constitutional protection of > religious freedom. Some projections has Islam as the world majority world > religion by 2070, but based on other projections the world implosion may be > underway and Islam will just feast on the rotting corpse of the modern world > --- never to arise again. > > I think humanity is approaching a sort of peak of all that we may come to > know, prove, discover, create and invent. I think before long Homo sapiens > will be slouching back to a stone age. The whole period we are in with > civilization may be little more than an intermediate period between the > Pleistocene stone age where the Earth was rich and abundant and the next > stone age where Earth will be depleted and polluted. If so then mythic > thinking might again have real survival benefits. If Islam takes control of > the start into the next stone age, then frankly I could care less. > > My point with respect to this list though is that I think this is supposed to > be largely about scientific questions and subjects. I did not subscribe to > this in order to get screeds about Islam or any other religion. > > LC > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1474c97d-d10b-4ef5-839e-a8be0850b6be%40googlegroups.com > . > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2039784171.1629108.1567471493570%40mail.yahoo.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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