--- "Fr. Ivo Da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*--Your statements are as good as mine, because you >are repeating them without understanding (or trying to >understand) the point in question. >
Fr. Ivo, Here are the points that I want to make in response to your latest post under this thread. 1. No other subject can replace science in providing rational explanations for natural phenomena. If you know of any, please tell me about it with proper justifications. 2. An agnostic cannot be, by any stretch of imagination, considered to be absolutizing anything. Such a person, by definition, claims not to know many things, not the least of which is the absolute truth. 3. Biology and neuroscience tell us that the body and mind do not function after death. There is no evidence to indicate that any kind of functional entity survives the death of the body. The mind/soul has been shown to be entirely the product of brain activity. It dies with the brain. 4. Arent you absolutizing your knowledge by claiming to know that there are limits to science? Are there limits to the knowledge of your faith? 5. Why does your dogma have to describe reality? Why cant it describe fantasy? How do you distinguish between fantasy and reality, if you do not rely on objective evidence to validate your dogma? Dreams and fantasies are indispensable for human existence, as well. They are also witnessed by our universal experience. 6. How can an ancient text, which is static and cannot be revised, not be in conflict with something which is evolving? 7. I think by equating science with scientists, it is you who are committing an error. Science has nothing to do with the religious or non-religious beliefs of individual scientists. 8. There is currently no better method to evaluate rational explanations for natural phenomena than the scientific method. If you know of any, please let me know. And please provide proper justification for it. 9. You must have a very strange definition of ideology. What is your definition of ideology? 10. Please give me one example of a tenet of your faith that has been revised or renewed by "reflection" and "discernment", and please tell me why. Cheers, Santosh
