I particularly enjoyed his point that intellectual honesty is about not pretending you know what you can't know.
Thought there might be some folks here who would enjoy this.
Thanks Schmo I listened to them all this evening. I found it amusing the part where he says God occasionally writes books, he doesn't code software, he doesn't produce films, he's principally an author of books. He then makes the argument that nothing in the books is particularly profound yet they are attributed to a divine author whereas no one ever attributes the divine to truly profound works of scientists, as an example Isaac Newton.
Calculus Crusader wrote:[ I'm not interested in the goings on in your neighborhood, hayseed.
LOL.. but keep thinking you are special w/ your magic brand of bullsh*t...
God has the right to create and to destroy, to make like and to kill. He can delegate this authority if he wishes to. I know that can be scary. Deal with it. Nehor.. Nov 08, 2010
Aww... Calculus Crusader's true Christian persona is manifesting itself once again. Makes ya wanna run straight to JC and beg to become an 'old world' creationist crackpot!
Calculus Crusader wrote: I don't think I'm smart; I know I am, Limey.
Could we perhaps be told the name of the Christian group whose doctrines you adhere to? Of course you may be "unchurched" in any formal sense.
Any organization that commands the allegiance of someone as intelligent as you are clearly demands respect and close attention. If on the other hand none of the presently existing churches meets your intellectual standards, that information would in itself tell us something important about the state of religion in the US today.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote: Could we perhaps be told the name of the Christian group whose doctrines you adhere to? Of course you may be "unchurched" in any formal sense.
Any organization that commands the allegiance of someone as intelligent as you are clearly demands respect and close attention. If on the other hand none of the presently existing churches meets your intellectual standards, that information would in itself tell us something important about the state of religion in the US today.
I do not identify with any extant Christian denomination. I utterly reject the unscriptural and illogical doctrine of the trinity, which rules out most Christian sects.
Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei
(I lost access to my Milesius account, so I had to retrieve this one from the mothballs.)
marg wrote:whereas no one ever attributes the divine to truly profound works of scientists, as an example Isaac Newton.
I do. So did Newton. His main interest was in discovering the mind and will of God through study of scripture, symbolism, and the nature of the Universe.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
antishock8 wrote:Aww... Calculus Crusader's true Christian persona is manifesting itself once again.
I do not suffer fools or theomachoi gladly.
What the heck is the point of saying 'God-fighters' in Greek?
To those who know Greek it adds nothing. To those who don't know Greek it adds nothing.
So why do it?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.