RE: In a world without God...
June 13, 2013 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2013 at 9:51 am by orogenicman.)
(June 13, 2013 at 9:33 am)Drich Wrote:(June 13, 2013 at 9:13 am)orogenicman Wrote: Odd, that. I say odd because the title of the thread and the subject of the OP was about a world without god, not a discussion of god or what a world is with god.Are you not aware that one is not to judge a book by it's cover? Or in this case a thread by it's title??
So you are saying that titles mean nothing. That a title to a book, or a thread, is not intended to give the reader an idea of what is inside? Isn't that a bit dishonest?
Quote:Again content and context my good man. The discussion was centered around the God of the bible is it not? Then Again it is to the bible we must go for those answers.
No, actually, and going on the question raised in the OP, the discussion was the center around "A world without god". You choose to make it otherwise.
orogenicman Wrote:Because field experience has far more impact intellectually and emotionally.
Drich Wrote:If your intelectual answers are contingent on an appeal that envokes an emotional response then i would seriously question the vality of your 'intelectual' conclusions.
Every intellectual endeavor evokes some sort of emotional response, be it amazement, curiosity, or any of a dozen such responses. The fact that these emotions are evoked does not in any way detract from the importance or validity of the intellectual experience. Perhaps if you had intellectual experiences outside your own narrow world view, you'd come to understand this very simple concept.
orogenicman Wrote:You can talk about fossils and sedimentary layers in a classroom or in a forum until the cows come home, but there is no substitution for seeing them in the field IN CONTEXT.
Drich Wrote:yikes.
Oh my. An emotional response.
orogenicman Wrote:I worked at the Louisville Science Center for four years as assistant science curator, and am very aware of the fact that many skeletal displays are reproductions.
Drich Wrote:Then why challenge what i said?
Because you are clearly attempting to make it appear that all the billions of fossils that have been discovered have, by some deviant conspiracy, been manufactured. Go into the field with me and I will show you that they are NOT manufactured. Come one, grasshopper. Be a man. what are you afraid of?
orogenicman Wrote:Crinoids Of The Muldraugh Member of The Borden Formation...
Drich Wrote:Looks like a red herring to me.
Probably because you are too cowardly to actually read it.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
