Fri 14 Feb, 2003 03:39 pm - If mankind survives long enough, most of the questions we can now pose will almost certainly be answered. However, as has always been the way of inquiry, those answers will reveal new questions.... (view)
Fri 14 Feb, 2003 12:42 pm - Setanta:
Point well taken. "Good manners" is an apt description of the rules zealots seem to believe don't apply to them in the case of their beliefs.
The two major... (view)
Fri 14 Feb, 2003 10:03 am - midnight:
Well said. We dance around the reality of how silly the whole notion is because it has long been assumed that we owed some dispensation from critical examination to those who... (view)
Thu 13 Feb, 2003 03:24 pm - steissd:
Only those who are unable to provide proof through "formal logic" discount its necessity.
To [b]think[/b] is to inquire, to [b]believe[/b] is to close one's mind to... (view)
Thu 13 Feb, 2003 03:11 pm - steissd:
You wrote, "It is a basic natural feature, and the nature was endowed with it by God."
You are committing the logical fallacy generally referred to as "non... (view)
Tue 11 Feb, 2003 11:09 am - My story echoes those of others. I sometimes refer to myself as a recovering Southern Baptist. Though exposed to it very early, my parents' scientific background would not allow them to... (view)
Thu 16 Jan, 2003 10:16 am - Asherman:
Having read your last post several times I remain in awe. I have seldom seen anything put so beautifully and concisely.
You wrote, "Because there is a dream, only an analogy... (view)
Wed 15 Jan, 2003 04:04 pm - Very well said Phoenix.
Many years ago in an undergraduate philosophy course the instructor lamented the absence of a word to identify those who had no interest in the hypothetical existance of... (view)
Wed 15 Jan, 2003 12:50 pm - I have been reading this thread with much interest but have hesitated to jump in because of my novitiate status here. I'll probably get over it.
It seems that the point of definition of... (view)
Tue 14 Jan, 2003 04:12 pm - I think it is tragic that this is all finally being brought into the light at a point when John Paul II is so old. I think his influence on the College of Cardinals now is that of an old man who... (view)
