Hi John Clark 

>From his hostile postings, Craig seems to have been very 
very badly hurt by the Christian Church sometime in the past. 

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Subject: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:



>> The astronomer Giordano Bruno would not have been surprised to hear that the 
>> invention of science was a fight against theology, he was burned alive by 
>> the church for suggesting that the bright points of light you see in the 
>> night sky were other suns very very far away. 

>The Catholic Church of the 16th century is no more representative of Theology

In Europe in 1600 the Catholic Church was not representative of theology it 
virtually was theology; competing franchises like Judaism and Islam were just 
rounding errors, and they were just as dumb anyway. ? 



>than ethnic cleansing is representative of Darwin. 

Huh?? Charles Darwin and ethnic cleansing, it does not compute.



>> Explaining how complexity came about from simplicity is much better than 
>> saying complexity came about from even more complexity. 


> Religion does the same thing. 

Bullshit.


> The Tower of Babel. Noah's Ark. Genesis. Complexity emerges from simplicity

God is not simple, although very often the believers in God are.? 

?

> Ron Popeil is not a theologian. 


True, Ron Popeil is much more moral than theologians because the stuff he sells 
on TV actually exists.


>> What would lead to unemployment is if the LHC discovers nothing mysterious 
>> that contradicts what we think we know. 


> Not really.

Yes really.


> Validating the standard model is just as profitable as mystery.

Bullshit. Everybody knows that the standard model is very very good but they 
also know it can't be the end of the story because it says nothing about 
gravity or Dark Matter or Dark Energy nor can it explain why neutrinos have 
mass. And everybody knows that unlike telescopes that have found a lot of 
surprising stuff in fundamental physics, particle accelerators have not 
discovered anything surprising in almost 40 years (finding the Higgs was not 
surprising, not discovering it would have been surprising and that's why many 
hoped it didn't exist but they were disappointed), and if the LHC doesn't find 
anything new either it could be the last of these very expensive machines for a 
century.

?ohn K Clark



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