[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[Jim Peavler]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Gad Horowitz wrote:

> What "is" "TIME"?

It is what changes, besides distance, when two or more objects move  
in relation to one another. It creates velocity.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Hoogcarspel" <jehms at xs4all.nl>
> To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Fighting creationism
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>> 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.
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>> Erik
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