tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post113364782791018488..comments2023-10-30T07:45:43.656-04:00Comments on Thoughts and Ideas: The Great Evolutionary DebateA Wiser Man Than Ihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-1134111347741535082005-12-09T01:55:00.000-05:002005-12-09T01:55:00.000-05:00Good point Troutsky. Apparitions are fascinating ...Good point Troutsky. Apparitions are fascinating things, partially because the world may never know...A Wiser Man Than Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-1134059794293140052005-12-08T11:36:00.000-05:002005-12-08T11:36:00.000-05:00Why not comparative religion, Loyal?or philosophy?...Why not comparative religion, Loyal?or philosophy?<BR/><BR/>Upon further reflection, I suppose scientists have historically spent time on apparitions,in a larger sense, such as explaining the celestial bodies but the personal, one time events,such as Joseph Smith recieving tablets from angels are difficult to research.troutskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020298501632120830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-1133993109442537042005-12-07T17:05:00.000-05:002005-12-07T17:05:00.000-05:00Is that the reason scientists do not spend time on...Is that the reason scientists do not spend time on apparitions, Troutsky? Or is it because giving confirmation to miracles would diminish their credibility in a secular field? Something to consider...<BR/><BR/>You make an interesting suggestion, Loyal. <BR/><BR/>Still, do students need to take a "mythology" course to read C.S. Lewis for instance. Christian schools still read Nietzke, if not always Sartes. Aguinas referenced the Greek philosophers often. Shouldn't great thinkers be appreciated for being great thinkers?A Wiser Man Than Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-1133818927845971982005-12-05T16:42:00.000-05:002005-12-05T16:42:00.000-05:00I wouldn't mind teaching Christian doctrine in sch...I wouldn't mind teaching Christian doctrine in schools, if, (as they now do at the University of Kansas) it was under the ehading of 'mythology'.Barba Rojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04728768739652636135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-1133802791692021062005-12-05T12:13:00.000-05:002005-12-05T12:13:00.000-05:00Buchanan is an interesting observer and a fairly u...Buchanan is an interesting observer and a fairly unique voice in the mainstream punditocracy.I freely associate with many of the ideas of Trotsky but would loathe the idea of being lumped in with these neo-cons.Trotsky viewed revolution as a profoundly democratic, bottom -up process where the working class, that is the 'masses", initiate ,direct and control all aspects of social development whereas these neo-cons want to spread their ideology and institutions through a top-down process,(more like Lenin,which morphed into the horrors of Stalinism) through the intervention of a benign Big Brother (US power)coordinated by an elite cadre of intellectuals,politicos and corporatists.Even if their purported goal is democracy,it is better described as imperialism.<BR/><BR/>The promoters of ID want us to believe their is a "controversy" between ID and evolution, insinuating to an under-educated lay public that a theory has to be air tight perfect to be acceptable. They use this "irreducible complexity" as a psuedo-scientific challenge (which itself is unsupportable) knowing the sound of it is intimidating.<BR/><BR/>You are right that it in no way challenges a deistic notion of the beginning of all life.Scientists don't spend time on apparitions because there are so many important questions to be answered, important to our continued existence.troutskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020298501632120830noreply@blogger.com