Recent content by Bernardo

I never said that unknowns were acceptable. I don't believe in religious ignorance. I do believe that God placed rules laws in place that we call science. Yes, creation by faith, I claim it completely. But I want to find out as much about the creation as possible. What could possibly be...

And so our nice thread on this topic has disintegrated like all the others before it. Nothing learned - nothing changed. Differing thoughts cannot coexist - even here in the 'intellectual' world of philosophy and debate. It always seems to boil down to shots against the person. Making someone...

That's exactly my point, so they make a poor model for understanding our social makeup. I'm not sure how you can counter me, by agreeing with me?

I think you are forgetting one thing. Weight is not an issue with Santa. Remember he goes up the chimney with a twinkle of his nose. I'm wondering about anti-gravity boogers?

Because it's a tool wielded with amazing control and beauty by a most awesome God. I love your example - it demonstrates in a simple way the incredible complexity of life and the mind boggling occurrence of the random situations to bring about a simple butterfly.

To the extent that belief may blind someone to a legitimate scientific discovery - I totally agree. But it's not just religion. The point I was making concerning Gould is also along these lines. He had ideas as to evolution that could blur a scientific discovery for him. Let's say a discovery...

WHAT??!??

This was the list. (1) there is no pinnicle...evolution is just change, not necessarily progress...and certainly not progress toward a pre-set goal as far as we can tell (2) smarter/better/purer is relative to the ecosystem at a particular point in spacetime (e.g., a dominant species during an...

The difficulties I have with his ideas are the 'belief system' they come from. Gould was an Atheistic Evolutionist - I am a Theistic Evolutionist or in more correct terms - a Progressive Creationist. I look at the points listed above and don't see them as science - they are a 'statement of...

This is why I will never make a great philosopher, even though it's something I enjoy and is good 'exercise'. I like things that can be proven. I find I have to get over my first impression of 'well that's an insane idea' to actually mill it over in my mind and try to understand it. Actually...

How about this idea? Don't you think there come a time when 'there can only be one'. Everything pretty much has an equal footing at the cellular level, but as life gets more advanced domination occures. Evolution ends for all but the most advanced. If humans ever discovered baboons...

I will reply to you Mentat but I'm busy for a while. I'm beginning to think (every time I post) that if we went to school together you'd be coming to take my milk money each day

fermats last theorem I realize (by reading only - I am the anti-mathematician) the situation behind Fermats Theorem. A problem that has boggled the minds of great thinkers for such a long time, to now be solved gives me great hope. No matter if computers solved it or not - mankind has the...

What's your address? Can I come over? That sounds so much better than turkey! That is a beautiful post that highlights something I think we have not mentioned so far here - the good feelings that traditions carry with them. I grew up watching "A Christmas Carol" every Christmas. I still...

Of course there is, it's called the present. Would the chain of events that took place happen without that thought? The origin of this particular 'event chain' occurred on it's own. How can a series of events begin without something to begin with? The thought, "I want pizza", was initiated...