On Apr 8, 2005, at 5:46 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 02:08 AM Friday 4/8/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It is interesting that you are much more likely to state things as absolutes than most people I know who do claim to have the sure word of God on issues.
Well, when arguing facts, I tend to do that. I'm just as certain of gravity, Earth's rough sphericity and the heliocentric solar system. I could be wrong, of course, but I don't think it's very likely.
As a scientist, I tend to make statements which allow for the possibility that I might be wrong, even though the claim I am making in the statement seems pretty certain in light of our current understanding.
Fair enough. The trouble I have with remembering to use qualifiers is that they tend, I think, to weaken or water down a message.
Of course, that can lead to misunderstandings, frex the different meanings that a scientist and a lay person assume for the word "theory" in the expression "theory of evolution."
I keep thinking of _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_...
ARTHUR: Evolution! LANCELOT: Evolution! GALAHAD: Evolution! PATSY: It's only a theory. ARTHUR: Sh!
John, when he wrote Revelation,
Actually, I read your original comment as being dismissive of revelation in general (with the capitalization being due to its initial placement in the sentence), not the last book of the Bible in particular, hence the response I made.
Ah. Well, I'm pretty dismissive of revelation in general as well. ;)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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