Are there any other agnostics on CC?

tanonev
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:21:24 +0000

–Religion must grow with society (and yes, science) if it is to survive.

Now you’re getting into the belief that religion was man-made, not God-made…how can something made by God be destroyed by man, especially if man himself were made by God?

–If you are obviously unsure about your theological knowledge of other religions, don’t attempt to speak with such authority on them.

I’m not speaking with authority, I’m just putting my two cents in…anyhow, I have studied Buddhism for a while (and I mean beyond Hesse’s Siddhartha), since my dad’s side of the family is Buddhist and when I go visit relatives, sometimes I read their books…but surely you don’t expect me to put in term-paper research for a forum post, do you?

ah, yes…how does evolution explain the bat? I believe they said something about it evolving from a shrew of some sort. So what came first, the elongation of the forepaw bones, or the webbing between them? Either way, that’s gotta be one awkward critter that’s gonna be wiped out by natural selection in an instant…

anyhow, (I don’t feel like scrolling back since I have dialup), I remember someone saying that if I discredited evolution because it was labeled a theory, I would also be discrediting gravity, the heliocentric system, and relativity.
(1) LAW of Universal Gravitation, not Theory (remember the power of words)
(2) Since the heliocentric universe stems from the Law of Universal Gravitation, it is a corollary, not a theory
(3) Relativity implies that the speed of light is an absolute barrier (because mass expansion becomes infinite), but see Home – Physics World; for evidence to the contrary. That’s why the Theory of Relativity is just that–a theory. (A really really good one, I admit, but still just a theory).

see www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/ _PDFArchives/science/SC3W0601.pdf for more (yes, I know you’re getting tired of these links, so you don’t have to click if you don’t want to…and yes, it has Hovind, the paranoid conspiracy guy…but just because someone is paranoid doesn’t mean they don’t have some good ideas…remember how crazy Newton got late in life [because of mercury], and how temperamental Beethoven was [that he threw some guy’s luggage out the window because he missed a note in his music])