Gracchus
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God didn't say that. Some guy wrote it.
I see your ignorance extends to language. A large part of poetry is dependent on the ambiguity of language. And, depending on circumstances, a word or phrase may mean different things. Thus, if I say "Strike!", I may mean attack, or I may mean "Walk out!", or I might mean "Delete that!". There is ambiguity in every language, and to declare otherwise is simply stupid.
Because biological evolution, as has been explained numerous times in these forums, is the change in the frequencies of alleles in an interbreeding population over time.juvenissun said:
The short answer is that we don't know for sure. However, the best theory, the best explanation so far, based on the composition and dating of rocks from the moon, is that the moon is the result of a collision that tore part of the Earth away.
Fundamentalists base their world views on some unchangeable idea, written down in a book, and supposedly capable of only one interpretation. Thus it becomes an idol, a graven image. The real "word" is dynamic, it lives it speaks to ever-changing circumstances, it requires work, thought, judgement. A Jewish scholar once told me that idolatry was the worship of something that was not alive. The real "word" is the ever changing universe. It is chaos and order, and from the chaos we can construct order, but some chaos will remain.
We have it in our power to destroy the order and from the chaos build a new order, that leaves less chaotic residue.
And if you ask why, I can only reply, "Ars gratia artis".
Crystal Cabinet
by Julian Huxley
The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.
Within its walls the strangest partners met,
And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind.
For, once within, corporeal fact could find
A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt
Built there your little microcosm - which yet
Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned.
Dead men can live there, and converse with stars:
Equator speaks with pole, and night with day;
Spirit dissolves the world's material bars -
A million isolations burn away.
The Universe can live and work and plan,
At last made God within the mind of man.
Pearls before swine? I know.
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