I'm not sure if I agree with this, but it's the most interesting thing
I've heard on this thread. Somebody's having a good brain day!
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, John W. Kulig wrote:
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> jim clark wrote:
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> > this idea!). Same for any proposal (didn't someone refer to
> > religion as the "opiate of the masses"?).
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> I believe it was Lenin. I have a hypothesis about the creationism vs.
> science issue for which I have absoutely no proof, but will share anyway. I
> think the tendency to look at the Old or New Testament and believe these things
> _really_ happened is a symptom of our current age, in which we often _can_
> determine what really happens. When a ship sinks, when a coupe occurs, when an
> earthquake hits, the BBC and CNN are there videotaping. And we know that either
> the BBC and CNN is there - or at least could have been there videotaping. Those
> who spent their lives re-copying manuscripts knew that CNN and the BBC were not
> in existence. And being otherwise intelligent people (smart as us - ignoring the
> Flynn effect), they must have realized that what they were recording is not
> subject to simple empirical proof or disproof. If they believed there was CNN
> footage of the first several days of the world, they might have been disturbed
> by the fact that the book of Genesis actually has 2 creation stories in it -
> from 2 different tribes (in which cases the early Christians would have held a
> Council to decide what was true - as they held Councils on other matters). Most
> modern-day fundamentalists, in my opinion, live in a time when questions about
> "what is real" is subject to reliability checks and rules of science. They then
> impose this scientific view (unwittingly) on something never intended to be
> treated scientifically. Even the fundamentalists who rail against science cannot
> help being affected by its basic assumptions imo.
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> "What a man often sees he does not wonder at, although he knows
> not why it happens; if something occurs which he has not seen before,
> he thinks it is a marvel" - Cicero.
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