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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Just something to keep in mind.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand the all blue one.
ReplyDeleteCan I just say I think it's wildly hilarious that Todd and Sarah have basically switched personalities since high school. I mean, they were both well-liked then and into the 90s. But as Sarah's self-confidence grew, Todd let her take the reigns. Actually, I take that back. I believe she doesn't do anything without his input, though I think the special needs baby was her creation. Pure partnership. I've met people who lived near them and knew them well. These people have no ill words against them and said they were nice and cordial.
ReplyDeleteI call bullshit. Too many neighbors and friends have said otherwise. You have no idea who the friends are or what has been said.
DeleteI agree WakeUpAmerica, Amazing how so many people know people who know the goodness of the Palins via random, casual sightings, especially Sarah and Todd by seeing them in public. Every photo of them that I've seen, their eyes barely meet, if "affection" is expressed, it's fleeting and posed.
DeleteThat was a glorious quotation from Galileo!Thanks Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteFor Ardiva, I believe the all blue one is trying to convey that, amongst the scientific community, there is no division. That's why Gryphen included the Galileo Galilei quotation. Better to believe in science, using what he considered a God-given gift of the mind.
Science has the power to unite people, based as it is on logic, reason and critical thinking - unlike religious beliefs that are divisive, being based, as they are, upon unproven myths and blind faith and deep fears.
My interpretation may be incorrect, but I suspect that's why Gryphen put the quotes and the illustrations together or at least posted them together.
I'm a strong believer in science; however, the wrong conclusion has been arrived at more than once. On the other hand, those wrong turns have also helped to find the scientific truth. Science is not infallible, and any scientific results should be looked at with skepticism and more research. The Big Bang Theory is just that, theory. It is not fact.
Delete@WakeUpAmerica You should either educate yourself in science, or keep quiet and stop 'removing our doubt'. If you don't know the meaning of a scientific theory you shouldn't comment on it.
DeleteI would be amused to see you test out that silly 'theory' of gravity. After all, it's just a theory! Ah, that eloquent argument used by creationists. You just gave yourself something significant in common with them.
I admit to being harsh on you. Because I believe you deserve a wake up call yourself, funnily, considering your moniker.
I support Gryphen's blog and it saddens me to see people like yourself give it a poor name. Up thread someone posted a fairly innocuous comment to which you pounced and pretty much screamed liar. It's commenters like you and Gina that embarrass me to be a regular - that anyone posting a comment that doesn't 100% toe your line and use immature names and craziness to scream about the Palin's MUST be a troll from C4P or whatnot. For the record; I despise Palin and several members of her family with every inch of my body, but I try to avoid sinking to their level. Some regulars here should try it too!
Your post reminded me of this quote by Penn Jillette:
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also something to keep in mind
ReplyDeletethe world is only 10% white
Argument that any "apple or orange" is the only way is simplistic and well... hostile and argumentative. Both scientific and religious discussion intertwine and bring us to the truth. Rigid declaration stops the learning process.
ReplyDeleteIt has been awhile since I last posted an article by Pastor Howard Bess of Palmer, Alaska…but on the heels of my last entry yesterday - and all this nonsense by Christian extremists who insist that they are living by the inerrant word of the Bible, I felt his submission today was timely. Thank God for sanity! Christians such as Pastor Bess are why I call myself an Agnostic Christian rather than an Atheist.
ReplyDeletePastor Bess puts his words into action when he wrote a book titled, “Pastor, I am Gay” which caused him blow-back from the fundamentalists in his region – including Sarah Palin. Here is an excerpt from a Salon.com article from September 2008…
http://www.politicususa.com/straight-pastor-message-enlightenment-modernity-insanity-zealots.html
I love Leah Burton's work, she's my "go to" source for all things regarding religion and religious extremism.
DeleteSatan and demons seem to be everywhere, behind everything happening to our country. This was the rationale behind Rick Perry’s The Response and it is the continuing cry of Christian extremists. It isn’t real world facts that matter to the present-day Republican Party but beliefs: and not beliefs about those facts but beliefs about a very specific and extremist religious dogma.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/demonize-it-fundamentalist-obsession-demons.html
My problem with religion is that it defies logic and doesn't apply to modern times in many ways. Women were merely chattel, a commodity owned by superior men. There are people who take the bible literally, word for word, and feel the need to perpetuate myths.
ReplyDeleteAre we to "believe" Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt, punishment from an Angry God, when God is equal to love in it's purest form?
How can science "prove" matters of faith?
And that's where Gallileo's quote makes the most sense. Your previous post regarding theory and fact, combined with this one pretty much cinch the whole topic best. Scientific theory can be repeated and the outcome will be the same and can be accepted as "scientific fact".