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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.bahai
- Subject: Search for Truth (was: Contradiction with science)
- Message-ID: <46251@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:40:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.46251
- References: <1992Nov20.140320.4903@newscan.canada.sun.com>
- Sender: nabil@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- Lines: 31
- Approved: rick@helix.nih.gov (Rick Troxel)
-
- In article <1992Nov20.140320.4903@newscan.canada.sun.com>
- deb@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (David Barrett) writes:
-
- >ka> I've been getting lots of answers of the form "well, if you can't
- >ka> reconcile science and religion, try harder". I tried harder; now
- >ka> what? Are you always going to tell me I didn't try hard enough,
- >ka> just because I didn't get the answer you expect?
-
- >If you assume because you did not agree with the answers we have
- >provided that the answers cannot be correct then there is nothing
- >that will change the attitude you have chosen to take. It comes down
- >to a matter of believable reference source of information. We
- >believe the information that comes from God and his Manifestations is
- >infallible and what comes from man can be quite fallible. Facts
- >discovered by man is not absolute, just alot of agreement to an
- >observation.
-
- In other words, if I didn't get the answer you have provided, my
- approach to seeking truth is incorrect.
-
- It seems you are not as different from other religions as you think.
- I can examine the issues myself, on my own, as long as I want to... as
- long as I get the same answer as you did. If I examine something on
- my own, and I still disagree... well, tough, your religion calls me
- wrong.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
-