[67662] in Cypherpunks
Re: Missionaries (was: "Mormon Asshole?" re: GAK) [RANT]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale Thorn)
Wed Oct 9 01:29:46 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:22:19 -0700
From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
To: deeb@x.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Stephen Humble wrote:
> attila <attila@primenet.com> sez:
> > why would any rational individual espouse ANY cause he thought was
> > wrong!
> Biblical creationism is "wrong": there's ample evidence that the Earth
> is *much* more than 6000 years old. Yet lots of seemingly rational
> people believe biblical creationism.
Which years? The very definition of the Christian God encompasses all
ultimate things, including the ability to make the Earth look like it's
billions of years old, with *all* "evidence" in place. There are some
fascinating videos from Mt. St. Helens(?) which suggest possibilities
not found in the common literature....
There can be only one point here (outside of a purely religious
discourse), and that is that religion is a matter of faith, not of
physical proofs. Those spiritual beings can walk in your world (by
definition), but you can't walk in theirs, or at least you can't prove
it to the average cypherpunks subscriber.
