[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Timothy Smith schreef:
> 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.
>
You could as well argue that it's simply wrong because biology is not a polyparadigmatic science like psychology, where you can talk about the mind in both Freudian or Skinnerian terms. The Neodarwinist theory is the best we've got, so it's the only possible one. 
The leap from being to God is shear nonsense, because anything God does needs time, even He cannot create time.  If we come to the limits of a model it doesn't mean we are at liberty to fill in just any other which has the same limits. 
Besides, I dont't see what morals have to do with it, morals is about responsablility and religion takes that away. So when God talks, ethics fall silent.

Erik


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