RE: Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws
July 18, 2013 at 6:13 am
I understood your post completely. The illogicality of it is astounding.
You can't see past the understanding of the cosmos at that time. You're stuck at laughing at their understanding of cosmology rather than seeing that what they are really taking about.
The metaphors we can transpose into our own theories/ language and come up with the same picture. The importance isn't the theories/ language, because they are transient. The importance is in the message that the theories/ language is intended to convey.
You can't see past the understanding of the cosmos at that time. You're stuck at laughing at their understanding of cosmology rather than seeing that what they are really taking about.
The metaphors we can transpose into our own theories/ language and come up with the same picture. The importance isn't the theories/ language, because they are transient. The importance is in the message that the theories/ language is intended to convey.