tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post114617020174996039..comments2023-10-17T06:26:31.005-07:00Comments on Evolutionary Middleman: The Metaphysical Is a Non-AnswerJohn Evohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146422180547680142006-04-30T11:36:00.000-07:002006-04-30T11:36:00.000-07:00No, but it couldn't hurt.No, but it couldn't hurt.John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146416514057768292006-04-30T10:01:00.000-07:002006-04-30T10:01:00.000-07:00Aarggh. Not very funny. I doubt even some serious...Aarggh. Not very funny. I doubt even some serious bluegrass music would help them.<BR/><BR/>McKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146329542754204622006-04-29T09:52:00.000-07:002006-04-29T09:52:00.000-07:00Sorry about that link. Try this:Arguments we thin...Sorry about that link. Try this:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp" REL="nofollow">Arguments we think creationists should NOT use</A>John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146328662759091462006-04-29T09:37:00.000-07:002006-04-29T09:37:00.000-07:00Answers In Genesis would, indeed, not want you aro...Answers In Genesis would, indeed, not want you around. I wasn't really implying that you are the same as them. It's just that you do represent a quest for spirituality and by using a line from Reader's Digest you are certainly moving into "that" camp! But I get where you are coming from as opposed to what they are about. <BR/><BR/>Just for fun, check out this page <A HREF="http://John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146319398755490012006-04-29T07:03:00.000-07:002006-04-29T07:03:00.000-07:00The line under the Zero prayer is quoted from the ...The line under the Zero prayer is quoted from the American Digest site. It doesn't represent my own thoughts. So I'm not judging anyone and haven't have a clue what Answers in Genesis is about, as I've never been there. I doubt the world I perceive would be acceptable if the site represents a fundamentalist point of view. <BR/><BR/>There is a line in the chapter, the Country of the Mind in Barry Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146277016216141942006-04-28T19:16:00.000-07:002006-04-28T19:16:00.000-07:00McK - who am I to say you are wrong? Who am I to s...McK - who am I to say you are wrong? Who am I to say Islam is wrong? Who am I to say Hinduism is wrong? Who am I to say Buddhism is wrong? Who am I to say The Native Americans were wrong? Who am I to say the ancient Africans were wrong?<BR/><BR/>The poem you cite is right on. I can't deny its applicability to my life. It kind of a sad and lonely place to find ones self, but it's how I see it. <BRJohn Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146257356502438472006-04-28T13:49:00.000-07:002006-04-28T13:49:00.000-07:00Oops, another one falls off the apple cart:Prayer ...Oops, another one falls off the apple cart:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/006303.php" REL="nofollow">Prayer of Zero</A><BR/><BR/><I>Church of Zero<BR/>Divide-by-Zero<BR/>Zero-sum be Thy Name.<BR/>Zero will Come<BR/>Undo the One<BR/>Dust is its final Reign.<BR/>Bless me Zero for I am Me.</I><BR/><BR/>"It's a paltry belief in nothingness that masquerades as faith in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146254981067058472006-04-28T13:09:00.000-07:002006-04-28T13:09:00.000-07:00There could be other explanations since the big ba...There could be other explanations since the big bang was not a Pearl Harbor event that went away.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/01/weekend-sermon-whats-before-beginning.html" REL="nofollow">"Consider it this way: the big bang did not just happen once upon a timeless, some 14 billion years ago. Rather, a cosmos mysteriously explodes into being every moment, in every Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146240431367414172006-04-28T09:07:00.000-07:002006-04-28T09:07:00.000-07:00Pigeon, that's as good as any other explanation of...Pigeon, that's as good as any other explanation of these things - and why I, like Dr. Edward Wilson, leave it to the astrophysicist.John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146231894598800222006-04-28T06:44:00.000-07:002006-04-28T06:44:00.000-07:00on the big bang: once upon a time there was a youn...on the big bang: once upon a time there was a young creature named God who was playing with matches near an open gas source - kaboom! the entire universe was created, but the little God thingie was unfortunately killed by the blast ....<BR/><BR/>just a thought.epikleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01417963344148876467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146205835163933912006-04-27T23:30:00.000-07:002006-04-27T23:30:00.000-07:00Well, if I can't get YOU to agree on this, I might...Well, if I can't get YOU to agree on this, I might as well hang up my laptop.John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15599022.post-1146192251437993342006-04-27T19:44:00.000-07:002006-04-27T19:44:00.000-07:00"I can understand why even a highly intellectual m..."I can understand why even a highly intellectual mind needs to believe there is the "vast unknowable" that our limited consciousness can never grasp. It might even be so. I just don't care. Life, for me, is too short to spend more than a few weeks of it contemplating these things. I am more interested in what science CAN teach me. I am interested in exploring the outer edges of those Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com