Hi Christopher. I had to post again so that I could spell "mnemonic" correctly. Terrible, must have been half-asleep. Anyway, I haven't sat down and watched Expelled, although I have read a couple complimentary reviews. I am really ...
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Hi Christopher. I had to post again so that I could spell "mnemonic" correctly. Terrible, must have been half-asleep. Anyway, I haven't sat down and watched Expelled, although I have read a couple complimentary reviews. I am really learning to appreciate those passages where the Church is guaranteed to not fail in what is important and universally true. It is somewhat disconcerting, but I am starting to wonder if almost everything else other than the Church is false, smoke-and-mirrors, from faked history to prostituted science to corn-ball pseudo-philosophy. I really mean that, and I have reason to believe it from particular discoveries that I have made in my own research. Fairy tales, complete fairy tales. But I do not look harshly on fairy tales and myth in themselves, because it is a way to gain some grasp of reality, a kind of helpful intellectual crutch. I have done a great deal of research on solar system data, just trying to gain some understanding of the basic astronomical measurables; not only the obvious things like orbital distance and time, but also mass, density, tilt, polar and equatorial radius, length of day, etc. It is a long story that I will not tell on this forum, but I cannot see how any of the conventional explanations are even close to being plausible.
Greg, if you haven't already seen it, watch Ben Stein's Expelled for more evolutionist lunacy. One man even says life started with crystals. It was funny that he actually believes that, but sad at the same time. Evolution is also popular b...
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Greg, if you haven't already seen it, watch Ben Stein's Expelled for more evolutionist lunacy. One man even says life started with crystals. It was funny that he actually believes that, but sad at the same time. Evolution is also popular because it is anti-God, despite efforts by some to unite faith and evolution.
His voice sounds a bit different than I had imagined when reading his articles, but that’s alright. Quite interesting, even in just a few minutes.
Listening to this as he speaks about silly evolutionary ideas, my initial reaction is that he was poki...
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His voice sounds a bit different than I had imagined when reading his articles, but that’s alright. Quite interesting, even in just a few minutes.
Listening to this as he speaks about silly evolutionary ideas, my initial reaction is that he was poking down a straw man --- but he isn’t. Yes, there are evolutionists who really say stupid things like this.
Perhaps all evolutionists should be considered “practical superstitious” but not “formal superstitious”. Yes, they invent and follow fables -- but fables can also be a way to gain some foot-hold on, some grasp of, reality. In that way, evolution serves as a kind of organizing principle, almost as a kind of pnemonic device.
