Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:57:18 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo <mervynal...@yahoo.ca>
Abortion is only the proxy for the real issue which is believers v/s non-believers. Mario responds: This makes no sense whatsoever, at least as far as I am concerned for whom abortion has nothing to do with believers and non-believers. Mervyn wrote: The group of people who have a religious book or guidance to depend on will always be firm believers on what they are told. If the book says no to abortion, then it is so. Any other opinion becomes that of 'the anti-God.' The group of people who simply refuse to believe every word in the religious books have the opportunity of finding out from science when life begins and when it ends. Mario responds: Perhaps Mervyn wrote his comments before he saw my post in response to Venita Coelho's column in the Herald, where I provided my perspective on abortion without referring to any religious book or any religious teaching: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-January/188843.html I made no references to God or anti-God, and only used science and common sense as my guide. Mervyn wrote: It is not unusual to read in the Canadian papers of a person being revived after spending 15 minutes at the bottom of a lake. Science is pulling people back from what used to be know as the 'dead.' Mario observes: Though modern medical technology can do a lot of wonderful things, it still cannot bring back people who are "dead", i.e. brain dead. The people referred to above were not "dead". Mervyn wrote: While it seems that the drive of every scientist is to expand scientific knowledge, the drive of every religious person seems to be to repeat what he is told to believe. Mario responds: Poppycock. I am a practicing Catholic and no one has told me to simply repeat what someone has told me. Many scientists also practice a religion and are able to tell the difference between science and faith. Mervyn wrote: There are thousands of websites devoted to the debate on believers v/s non-believers. I ask all here that are interested in debating beliefs, to take their arguments to those sites. Mario responds: Thanks, but Goanet is fine for any discussion that Goans are interested in.
