Posted by Al; [Aldurant] on April 02, 1999 at 16:55:08 {ppHCdFLRUMbNVk78PDhst74NX2uzuA}:
In Reply to: ********Tropical Evidence! posted by WW on April 02, 1999 at 13:11:33:
The main blindness with scientists is "double-blind tests"- testers who do not know what results they are expected to get as they are testing the evidence. You seem to need to "blindly" discredit science and scientists without esentially seeing for yourself by learning some serious science. You make up your mind, not only what you want to believe, but in very narrow interpretative conditions for that belief. Jesus presumably told many symbolic stories also.
Organized religion over the centuries has for some reason insisted on interpreting certain things in The Bible to restrict physical facts about the earth. But The Bible is supposed to be a "book" on spirituality, not on science, or even history. Why must we tell these disciplines what to conclude in advance of evidence, when it was God who gave us our logic and our minds? It is only narrow and unnecessarily fearful men who tell us we must deny evidence, and view the scientific community as a consistently deluded conspiracy. Yet we still use them when we need them. You keep trying to equate scientific credibility with any other, yet you would not even select which medicine to take without scientific tests. You would hardly pray to determine your choice on this issue. What you continue to do, without any real necessity in my opinion, is to "muddy the waters", to make yourself feel that "you never can tell" about science, and that all data that contradicts current interpretations of what The Bible says and what Jesus alledgedly taught according to these 2000 year old writings is in "doubt" and is only accepted on "faith", which I understand to include evidence, actually, also.
If we know our names, if we know enough to not steer into the next telephone pole we pass on the highway, there are things that we know from science that contradict some people's interpretation of ancient religious books. Otherwise we don't even know that we are on the internet.
Al