[bookshare-discuss] Re: The Twelve Stories Before Christmas & misc.
- From: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:31:24 -0600
Hi: Cosandra.
I think Ann's point is well taken and is not meant to be generally applied to
you or anyone in particular.
There are a good many people who won't allow Harry Potter because it "encourages
magic". I have even met one or two people who shun Narnea for the same reason.
Dinosaurs are a fact not a theory. They're there. Even the hardest shelled
short-day creationist has to explain that fact. Those who object to the
teaching of evolution do so, if they have thought about it at all, object to the
philosophy of Scientism. Many good Christians, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis come to
mind, accepted "evolution" They may not, have excepted strict Darwinism, but
that, as Lewis dryly remarks in Reflections on the Psalms is another issue.
“We read in Genesis (2, 7) that God formed man of the dust and breathed life
into him. For all the first writer knew of it, this passage might merely
illustrate the survival, even in a truly creational story, of the Pagan
inability to conceive true Creation, the savage, pictorial tendency to imagine
God making things "out of" something as the potter or the carpenter does.
Nevertheless, whether by lucky accident or (as I think) by God's guidance, it
embodies a profound principle. For on any view man is in one sense clearly made
"out of" something else. He is an animal; but an animal called to be, or raised
to be, or (if you like) doomed to be, something more than an animal. On the
ordinary biological view (what difficulties I have about evolution are not
religious) one of the primates is changed so that he becomes man; but he remains
still a primate and an animal. He is taken up into a new life without
relinquishing the old.”
The debate between the Evolutionists and the creationists has become so heated
that one tends to lump all Evolutionists with J. B. S. Haldane and all
Creationists with the Mavens of the Creation Research Institute. Unless Ann
comes to my house and tries to beet me to death with a Richard Dawkins book in
her left hand and God is Not Grate by Christopher Hitchins in her right; I'll
assume both her motives and her heart are pure. I can already tell she has good
taste in literature.
I'll make two more comments.
1. I disagree with much of Christopher Hitchens writes, but my is he fun to
read. Those of you who don't frequent National Review on line should note that
Mr. Hitchen's is linked too from there from time to time. That is how I have
become familiar with his writing. I don't know if he's on bookshare.
2. I love bookshare. I took the quote above directly from a bookshare book. It's
so nice to think you remember a quote, go to bookshare just like you would a
library and find the quote, and insert it in your document just like you were an
intelligent grad student.
God I wish I wish. . . .
Duane Iverson.
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From: "Kasondra Payne" <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:52 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: The Twelve Stories Before Christmas & misc.
Ann,
That was not what I was saying, and you know it! Please reference my last
post for the real reason why I don't like Barney. My boys like dinosaurs,
and they have several. I can't wait to take them to Dinosaur National
Monument, which is a few hours from me, when they are a little older. You
don't need to bring religion into this.
Kasondra Payne
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