RE: Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?
July 22, 2019 at 6:17 pm
(July 22, 2019 at 6:06 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 22, 2019 at 6:01 pm)Belaqua Wrote: These little Gish Gallops make it hard to talk to you.
It appears now that you're going with the "not worth it" argument rather than the "can't do it" argument.
I told you anyone can create a small value by incurring a large cost.
OK, so that means that "fundamentalists" can create things of lasting value. Although perhaps only "small" value.
So I think we've settled on the argument you're making.
Now we'd have to find a way to calculate the costs vs. the benefits. Did the people of France benefit from Chartres Cathedral? How can we quantify this? Granted, maybe they should have spent the money in other ways. If they hadn't built the cathedral, where would the money and effort have gone? I don't think we can just assume that it would have gone to the kind of research you approve of.
If the people of the time felt that it was a good thing to do, are we justified in saying they shouldn't have spent their time and their money that way? There are all kinds of unquantifiable benefits that are hard for us to understand. Particularly if we start from the premise that religious objects are always a waste of time, whether the people who made them thought so or not, it will be difficult to calculate cost/benefit numbers.
