Re: If you are ever in Arkansas...


"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> El Guapo wrote:
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> > "Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> From the people who brought you Christ of the Ozarks and the Great
> >> Eureka Springs Passion Play:
> >> The Museum of Earth History...
> >>
> >> http://www.moeh.org/main/about.htm
> >> http://www.dfire.org/x1671.xml?ss=print
> >>
> >> Wow.
> >> Jo
> >
> >
> > I got a chuckle out of their claim that dinosaurs were included on the
> > Ark. Just how big was that boat, anyway?

> >
> Yes. The usual explanation I've heard other places for why there are no
> more dinosaurs is they missed the boat....


The ignorance of religion in these science ngs is just stunning.
Doesn't anyone know what metaphors or symbols are?

The stories of genesis and the flood are merely poetic visions
meant to describe the interdependencies within the natural
world, and the role catastrophic change plays in nature.

Are you disputing the truth of either of those ancient assertions?
You'd be a fool if you do. Your only difficulty seems to lie
in the way this philosophy is expressed. Through stories, allegory
and symbols. No thinking religious person takes these stories
literally.

But you're taking their metaphors literally. No thinking person
should do that either. This Disneyland example of religion
represents the lowest form of religious expression.

It's as if religion judged the state of modern science by watching
Sesame Street. That's what you're doing.

I'm stunned at how poorly educated this generation is
in things like poetry and abstract concepts.


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Main Entry: sym·bol

2 : something that stands for or suggests something else by reason
of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance;
especially : a visible sign of something invisible
<the lion is a symbol of courage>


Main Entry: al·le·go·ry

1 : the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and
actions of truths or generalizations about human existence;
also : an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression


Main Entry: po·et·ry

2 : writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience
in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response
through meaning, sound, and rhythm


Main Entry: ab·stract
1 a : disassociated from any specific instance <abstract entity>
2 : expressing a quality apart from an object <the word poem is concrete,
poetry is abstract>









>
> I just keep getting this image in my mind of all those biblical
> shepherds, out there, defending their flocks from tyrannosaurids... or a
> really novel Christmas creche display.
>
> You know, I come from a show cave culture where the bigger the windy,
> the more it blows-- "We have to close the cave at 5 p.m. because at
> dusk, five-foot-tall blind white cave insects go down to the river to
> feed"-- "We know it is twice as dark in a cave at night because we've
> measured it with an 18 inch yardstick"-- "Directly below this pendulum
> lies the center of the earth, and it's one of our major unique exhibits
> here at the cave" but this Museum of Earth History beats all the cave
> guides could come up with even after midnight with a pile of empties on
> the ground.
>
> It is an interesting business ploy--attract the true believers by
> telling them exactly what they already think they know, and the scoffers
> whose jaws drop in astonishment that someone actually financed such a
> 'Believe It or Not' venture, and want to see it for themselves. Money
> rolls in from the just and unjust.
>
> And it is such a convenient drive from Branson...

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