Re: Fossil "missing link" discovered

On May 20, 8:23 pm, oriel36 <kelleher.ger...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 20, 7:17 pm, David Nakamoto <david.nakam...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



PM wrote:
47 million year old precursor to primates discovered.
Creationists...eat your shorts!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30826552/

Oh please.  You're dealing, with the Creationists, with people who don't
place any value on real thinking, don't practice real thinking, and take
a literal interpretation of a book that is myth, hearsay, and has been
EDITED HEAVILY to fit a certain mindset WITHIN one religious group.

Note that, in Europe, Creationism was dead on arrival, because they
don't take the Good Book literally.

And, for such "spiritually uplifted" people, the people who support
Creationism use the Bible the least for their own spiritual evolution
from blind adherence to dogma towards self enlightenment, but since this
is an Astronomy group, I digress.

   --- Dave

Not at all,apart from being an astronomer or rather because I am an
astronomer,I am also Christian.

I have spent as much time on theological issues as the astronomical
ones and especially those troublesome facets that neither scientists
nor denominational Christian understand particularly well.

What you call 'creationism' is really a reaction to empiricism and
both sides have not really done so well in matters of either science
or faith but that is a consequence in Christianity abdicating its
responsibility to its  scientific heritage in matters of astronomy and
those disciplines which involve evolutionary facets such as geology
and biology.The empirical stamp on evolution is,of course,Darwin's
adaption of a social commentary on racial supremacy (Mathus) applied
to biological evolution as a dynamic,a logical consequence of a
tendency to frame everything in terms of 'natural laws',something that
was big with the democratic Brits back in the late 17th century - sort
of a counterpoint to 'Dieu it mon droit'.

The first reference to the 24 hour day and the calendar system is
actually the structural framework from Adam to Noah which ends in
Genesis 7 v11 -

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month: it was on that day that All the
fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the
sky were opened"

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/genesis/genesis7.htm

The post-exile Hebrew author(s) went to a lot of

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In any case,a good overview of the framework of Genesis has been known
for well over 120 years with Campbell's summary good enough -

http://books.google.com/books?id=c4e81Qa0rQ4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inner+reaches+outer+space&ei=ZlkUSuCBFoaokAS4iMHvCQ#PPA9,M1

You need a feel for these things to give it direction,in short,you
need to have faith to enjoy these geometric facets what protect idiots
from imposing too literal a meaning on the sacred texts or those who
can't see their purpose.

From page 9 onwards is a decent overview but omits the magnificent
way the authors got the genealogical structure to overlap with the 1
chapter of Genesis.Newton tried his hand at these things but was an
Arian heretic hence his followers would also find these Judaeo-
Christian structures impenetrable.


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