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Post by Zeffa! on Jan 16, 2008 7:51:51 GMT -8
I do enjoy an argument like this. I like arguments where everyone is on an equal understanding of the topic. That way they can give their own personal views and opinions and interpretations about it. It's like good old Augustus McCray in "Lonesome Dove."
Anyway, I agree entirely with Dr.Cobalt, whether you want to be or not, you are what you are, and wishful thinking will only cause you to fall off the couch and get a concussion, and your childrens taken away from you. I think that C.S. Lewis had similar thoughts regarding the sudden burst of evolution and trying to come up with an explanation for it. Though he's no dawrinian scholar as far as I know (which isn't much) I do recall a passage in the Magicians apprentice where after the "big bang" allegory everything in the universe that touched the Uber-fertile land grew into its own thing. The lamppost bar turned into a full lamppost. Now, this is mostly just my own mind wandering around a topic in order to feel like i have something semi-worthwhile to contribute to the conversation. Yes, in short, that is another vacant slot in our mathmatical logic problemn where we can insert variable God until we find out more about what the variable represents.
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Post by Raiku on Jan 16, 2008 9:48:06 GMT -8
Never thought of God as an object to fill the void, though the conclusion does have merit. I'm not gonna sit here and use big words and attempt to sound smart over this, because honestly, I don't know it all. I can't quote anyone, nor anything other than the Bible. Which, is a pretty decent reference. I'll have to do some more research...By the wayside, I found a video from South Park that explains the theory, it's hilarious, but DEFINATELY not for children. Use headphones and all that, it's pretty bad. If you want it, PM me and I'll send it.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Jan 16, 2008 12:21:08 GMT -8
I still am trying to figure out why exactly your science teacher is teaching science, Silent.
For the record, every teacher has something silly they say. For example, it drove me absolutely crazy when my biology teacher said that in order for and oxygen atom to be "happy," it needed another electron in its outer shell.
...Since when do atoms have emotions? It's the same kind of thing with "the fish decided it needed to fly." I put that in my story because that is, literally, what I was taught - IN SCHOOL, for crying out loud.
It would be fun to get little kids in on this... see what teachers are actually teaching to innocent, trusting minds.
I agree with Raiku's feeling of not just using God as a "fill in the blank" variable. But, in a scientific sort of view, I suppose that is the only way they'd accept it... if they accept it at all.
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Post by silentstranger on Jan 16, 2008 15:03:22 GMT -8
Reffering to if my teacher was "spacial." The only thing I can say is he was German. (If that means anything.)
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Post by Detrevni on Jan 17, 2008 1:13:44 GMT -8
*has images of Germans floating in the vacuum of space* Rofl. What have you against Germans? Are you Germanist?
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Post by silentstranger on Jan 17, 2008 14:48:17 GMT -8
No.
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Post by Raiku on Jan 17, 2008 16:35:51 GMT -8
From about early 1930-1945, yes.
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Post by Zeffa! on Jan 31, 2008 2:53:19 GMT -8
Theology is certainly an interesting topic... I think I've learned much more about faith and ethics from my literature class than from countless sermons in church. I don't think science could give me the wisdom I've attained from understanding religion.
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