[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[Timothy Smith]

I'm more concerned about Stan's notion that the moral sphere is  
outside the sphere of ideas!?
News to me.  "Being", said Parmenides, "Is".  The leap from Being to  
God, it seems to me,
is less of a moral leap than an ideation.  Creationism is just  
downright unnecessary.

Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates
www.wheelwrightassoc.com

On Apr 1, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Richard Hayes wrote:

> On Sunday 01 April 2007 17:32, SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:
>
>> Sure, you can do whatever you want.  I don't agree that it is  
>> God's fault
>> that a virus originating in non-human animals jumped over to our  
>> species.
>> There is a reason for this, and it is this which you might  
>> consider as your
>> culprit.
>
> I suspect that what you meant to say is that there is an  
> explanation for the
> AIDS virus infecting human beings. Saying that there is a reason  
> implies that
> some purpose was held in someone's mind and that the spreading of  
> the virus
> is the deliberate fulfillment of that purpose. It is difficult to  
> imagine
> anyone holding that view.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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