Re: If you are ever in Arkansas...


"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> jonathan wrote:
>
> I keep telling you,jonathan, you need to come here to the bible belt.
> They *DO* take these stories literally.


Well, most non-believers, those that would say science is the
way, can't multiply nine times six without a calculator. Or even
have heard of integrals or relativity. So which camp should
we fear the most? Idiots with their finger on the bible, or on
the button? Don't you think you scare them too?



> My point of posting the link
> was: this is not 'Museum of Religous History'. It is the 'Museum of
> Earth History'--


Oh, so they crossed the two disciplines, and the world turned out
to see, got everyone talking. Funny about that. When opposite
extremes merge all hell generally breaks out. Maybe that's their
goal, to get attention. To raise the issue and start a debate.

That's the way to change the world. Maybe we should be
taking lessons from these people, not ridicule them.
Don't you see any difference between science and activism?
One exalts the meaning of words, the other uses them for
effect.



>
> If people are erecting museums with fossils in them, and proporting to
> show how dinosaurs fit into the biblical creation story by including
> them on the Ark, geoscientists have a stake in knowing the museums exist.


They ..should.. look at this stuff. The public is growing weary of our
sciences
that can't answer those ultimate questions, and doesn't even try anymore.
"Science doesn't do that'.

The public also understands that the complexity of the universe
is telling us something fundamental about our existence.
They may not have a clue....yet...but their intuition is in fact
correct.

That the simplicity of the universe is best seen through life, the most
complex the universe has to offer. Have faith, this path leads back
to Darwin eventually. This path leads to a merging of religion and
science so that someday the two camps will no longer point fingers
and laugh at each other with contempt.

But will instead join hands and at last find those eternal answers.
We are witnessing something special with the ID movement.
Someday that'll become clear.


Jonathan

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