Step 2 is shrinking
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_Dr. Shades
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Re: Step 2 is shrinking
Dear Sock Puppet,
Will you please de-guiltify yourself of "link-and-run" by telling us what's on the other end of the link, why it's important or relevant to Mormonism, and what you hope readers/viewers learn from it?
Will you please de-guiltify yourself of "link-and-run" by telling us what's on the other end of the link, why it's important or relevant to Mormonism, and what you hope readers/viewers learn from it?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley
--Louis Midgley
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_sock puppet
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Re: Step 2 is shrinking
Dr Shades,
The link is to a famous cartoon showing two gentlemen at a chalk board with an equation begun in the upper left hand corner and finished in the lower right hand corner, with "then a miracle occurs" written in between the equation's beginning and ending. The caption reads: "I think you should be more explicit here in Step Two."
As science keeps better explaining, the need for religion to supply "miraculous" mysteries is reduced. Ergo, Step 2 is shrinking.
The point of the link-and-run was for the MD reader to be able to adduce that for him or herself in a matter of 20 or maybe even 30 seconds. It was a stylistic choice; not an incomplete, as you call it, link-and-run. Now that the impact is gone through this short explanatory dissertation, I'm sure the style effect consciously chosen will not work as intended.
The link is to a famous cartoon showing two gentlemen at a chalk board with an equation begun in the upper left hand corner and finished in the lower right hand corner, with "then a miracle occurs" written in between the equation's beginning and ending. The caption reads: "I think you should be more explicit here in Step Two."
As science keeps better explaining, the need for religion to supply "miraculous" mysteries is reduced. Ergo, Step 2 is shrinking.
The point of the link-and-run was for the MD reader to be able to adduce that for him or herself in a matter of 20 or maybe even 30 seconds. It was a stylistic choice; not an incomplete, as you call it, link-and-run. Now that the impact is gone through this short explanatory dissertation, I'm sure the style effect consciously chosen will not work as intended.
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_Dr Exiled
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Re: Step 2 is shrinking
Loved it regardless. I wish I could share it effectively on the other board. They'd probably be offended or go into denial mode.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
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_EAllusion
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Re: Step 2 is shrinking
It's probably the best science cartoon ever done. XKCD is still chasing the crown.
It's a mistake to reduce it into mocking god-of-the gaps though. It's really a great way to illustrate thinking about gaps in evidence or prior probability for theories. Yes, it works great in the context of religious apologetics in general and especially Mormon apologetics where a lot of arguments try to bracket supernatural phenomenon in such a way that "and then a miracle occurs" is swept under the rug rather than have a burden of evidence. But it's so much more than that because what it is making fun of happens all the time and it's a great light-hearted way of reminding people of their explanatory gaps.
It's a mistake to reduce it into mocking god-of-the gaps though. It's really a great way to illustrate thinking about gaps in evidence or prior probability for theories. Yes, it works great in the context of religious apologetics in general and especially Mormon apologetics where a lot of arguments try to bracket supernatural phenomenon in such a way that "and then a miracle occurs" is swept under the rug rather than have a burden of evidence. But it's so much more than that because what it is making fun of happens all the time and it's a great light-hearted way of reminding people of their explanatory gaps.