Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarded to -offtopic where it belongs.  Hopefully responses will only
go there.  Please delete -factory from any responses to this.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011/09/12 15:00 (GMT-0400) Brian K. White composed:
>
> > By now the only thing science claims to "know" is that that
> > probably nothing we use as mental place-holders right now will turn out
> > to be the whole real story later.
>
> That so-called "knowledge" too is still mere hypothesis...
>
> > ....literally anything _might_ be true in an infinite
> > and unknowable universe...
>
> > ..."demonstrate" is a technical term which
> > requires employing the scientific method
>
> Not every scientific method has yet been discovered or recognized as such.
> Some demonstrations witnessed by many, recorded in writing, many have chosen
> to disbelieve at least in part because they didn't witness personally.
>
> Had you espoused your anti-religion beliefs among the 'deluded' Americans
> responsible for creation of and who signed the United States Declaration of
> Independence, which reads in part "We hold these truths to be
> self-evident...that they are endowed by their Creator...", or those who
> penned the language of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which reads
> in part "Congress shall make no law ... [religion], or prohibiting the free
> exercise thereof", assuredly it would have been you dismissed as ridiculous
> or idiot.
>
> Many intelligent people find spontaneous life generation from inorganic
> matter evolving into human beings with ability have opinions and communicate
> them to other humans via writing, and to humans and other species via speech
> and gestures, and to have discovered that chromosomes 220 million base pairs
> long exist, and what any of them do, to be more ludicrous than creation by a
> Creator with power and knowledge far greater than feeble human brains can
> fathom.
>
> I for one find evolution from non-living matter all the way to thinking and
> reasoning humans, and for the Earth to have remained in appropriate relation
> to the Sun long enough for that to take place, to be the most preposterous
> supposition implied within this thread.
>
> That we can think and communicate, and that gravity exists to keep us on the
> ground and the Earth in that narrow life-supporting band of distance
> encircling the Sun, and that plants extract from soil those nutrients to
> convert via energy from sunlight to the food our bodies need to sustain, are
> to me daily demonstration and proof of a higher power, a Creator, which I
> believe to be the God of the Bible, a belief which was shared by most of the
> creators of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the
> longest lived existing government on this planet.
> --
> "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
>
>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>
> Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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