On 06/01/2007, at 1:34 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> But Wright seems to go far beyond that, he seems to have swallowed > whole and digested the American right wing version of christianity and > it is now a part of his being. I almost expect to see him go on an > anti-evolution rant any day now. Be interesting to prod him... > > [note] > On questions of faith, I have no problem with a set of ever moving > goalposts that always places certain knowledge of God beyond human > vision. Indeed, for the entire faith thing to work God must always be > unprovable and that is the crux of the determinism/freewill duality > that is so essential to faith. Yep. Which is why I have no trouble with general Deism (even if I think it's just a security blanket, or God-of-the-Gaps, it is at least both harmless and non-contradictory). > But when I see someone make a claim that implies the goalposts are > immovable and that science and the evidence *must* be wrong, > well....that is when I start to cringe. Indeed. It's a weird thing. And as for the rest of what you say, I agree. All very strange. Charlie _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
