RE: Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?
July 22, 2019 at 4:14 pm
(July 22, 2019 at 10:46 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: If the third Reich didn’t collapse so soon in the pyre of its own crimes it would also likely bequeath to posterity awe inspiring monumental edifices and prodigious quantities of public art.
Most human endeavors that entrain large number of people and demand devotion will inevitable enlist some people of ability and creativity that can make lemonade out of lemons so that things will be created in its name that, when the endeavor itself has run its course, will remain and be considered of lasting value.
But the subtle point here is the lasting value is only there because the opportunity cost it incurred is sunk and can’t be unpaid. If the opportunity cost is considered in the assessment whether any value would remain is a totally different question.
If humans can make things of lasting value out of material so unpromising as domineering wish-thinking and crude superstition, one shudder to think what could have been made but were not made because those with creativity were constrained to make do with lemons because of the self-importance and ambitions of the purveyors of rotten lemons.
You've changed the argument now. Before you said that "fundamentalism" (in whatever definition you were using) couldn't create things of lasting value.
Now you've changed to say that it can create things of lasting value even though it's bad.
This second position seems more defensible to me.
