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Re: Bible an allegory

On Aug 22, 4:58 am, juanjo <jonpe...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 10:12 pm, Bi...@Believer.org wrote:
>
> > In alt.religion.christian Mark Sebree <seb...@infionline.net> wrote:
>
> > > There
> > > is no reason for me to assume that my existence is dependent on
> > > something that does not exist.  I have no problem existing independ
ent
> > > of something that exists only in your imagination.  
>
> > But you think you exist because of Darwin and Einstein.  You follow t
hem
> > like a cult, because they brainwashed you in the pubic "schools".
>
> > It is all your Faith.
>
> The absurdity of this is easily demonstrated.  Science has shown us
> the existence of certain operational principles.  They are observable
> and reproducible in experiment.  For example genes and DNA.  Any
> reasonably advanced high school biology course would use fruit flies
> of bean plants to show basic scientific princioples which tie directly
> into evolution.  Results are predictable within certain limitations.
> The old brown eye /blue eye gene charts show the principles of genetic
> operation.  We may not know everything but we have a good idea about
> the main aspects.  I do not need to take that on faith.  It is readil
y
> observable and to some extend reproducible in the laboratory.
>
> Now the Christian fundamentalist or the proponent of some other deity
> or deities comes along and tells me that actually earthquakes are
> caused because god A is pissed at the people in state 1 or that they
> caused by the fact that the earth really rests on the back of a giant
> turtle who when he moves sets off quakes.   Nothing there is
> observable.  Nothing can be reproduced by experiment.  It simply has
> to be taken on faith that some deity has acted in some fashion with
> the result described. Now maybe Pele really does cause the Hawaiian
> volcanoes to erupt or djinn can grant you wishes or praying to a god
> can cure cancer.  Hard to say because there is nothing to support the
> theory.  Simply faith.

But volcanoes have always been reserved for the religous of ANY
type, religous
ans psedo-science. Since that's ALL it takes with volcanoes is
faith,
if you wait a thousand years, at least one of them is going to
erupt.
And so the people with science, evolution, engineering brains have
been
working on post-neanderthal robotics, RISC computers, Adaptive
A.I.
fiber optics, post AT&T Holograms, WWW,  Post GM Geometry, Optical
Computers,
and post Air Force brains,  Satellites, GPS, Cruise Missiles,
lasers,
Ebooks, and duo-magnets.






>
> Now my faith is fundamentally simple.  I am a Buddhist and I believe
> in the Dharma.  I believe in the law of cause and effect.  As far as 
I
> am concerned that is as far as I am willing to go when it comes to
> taking things on faith.

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