Dear All&One, Dear Brian and Jelke, Christianity is not a religion in the sense of following a particular liturgy: being Christian means to recognise the Truth...
Hi, everyone, I'd almost given up getting round to posting again - life has been very hectic, but felt I could put in a little something here. In fact, I don't...
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Hi Brian, Lucky you! I'm also retired but working more than ever. It seems that people don't like to see me loafing around.:-( Of course, the divisiveness of...
Hi Brian, At the end of the following post (whith which I fully concurr) you asked a number of questions. I'll be so bold as to try an answer. (See end of...
Hi Rudolf, Sure, I am a Christian in the sense you indicate. But then I am also a Buddhist as I recognize the Truth in the teachings of the Buddha and strive...
Hi Bill, Don't you think that we should distinguish between 'faith' and 'belief'? To me, faith is an attitude of trust, an attitude of the mind, while belief...
Jelke, Your response to Bill Cranston included the following paragraph: And I agree with you that scientists also have faith: faith in their ability to find...
Hello everyone, Recent posts from Rudolf (About Being Christian) and Bill (Re: Watching the Darwin Debate: WashPost Kickoff on Dover Trial) are ones which I,...
HI, You wrote: "It would be a delution of science to attach individual experience and interpretation to findings". I agree with the second: 'interpretations'....
Hi Brian, I do not deny convergence but only the 'must' part. Any 'must', imo, denies freedom. And I was primarily thinking of the first single cells who...
... (I am taking 'science' to mean 'knowledge' and not the way it is defined technically as being repeatable and testable. Some physicists don't even see...
I've always felt there is a connection between "convergence" and the notion of free will. Our will can allow us to converge or diverge. The notion of "God's...
Hello everyone, I think that Jelke and Chuck have raised a valid point apropos of convergence and freedom. Thus Jelke writes, ... and, ... The reality, in the...
Hi Jelke, Rosemary, and all... You have both spoken of the dichotomy that can exist when a person of theological bent is also a scientist. More important...
Here is my thesis: Evolution is tied to Kant's antinomies, and the issue of freewill verus determinate law in particular (agreeing with John Landon 2005, ...
Hi All. Am a newbie to the group, and have enjoyed reading the posts in here. Have been a Teilhard junkie for about 2 decades now, and believe he pretty well...
Hi All. Am a newbie to the group, and have enjoyed reading the posts in here. Have been a Teilhard junkie for about 2 decades now, and believe he pretty well...
Hi Loveologist2003, Welcome to the group. I think you will enjoy the group. There are some well informed people in this group and despite the diversity of...
...first post i have read since joining all yous...since i am shooting from the hit here, that is repsonding spontaneously rather than formally, for starters...
Blank...greetings brothers and sisters of the sacred packe...at fifty, i suppose is safe to say i am a latter day dharma bum who was never able to leave what...
... shooting from ... formally, for ... are tyying ... circumsribe dark ... Hello Mark, yes this is what Kant is saying about the antinomies too, so we agree...
I find your take (Stephen below) very interesting (and it seems this is the original of what appeared on the Teilhard and Chaosmos lists also). However let...
Hello everyone, A word of welcome to our newest members, loveologist2003 and whitewolfe424. In their initial posts they have both mentioned love. It does seem...
In a message dated 10/9/05 11:36:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Hello John, and thank you. We seem to agree that Kant's 3rd antinomy relates to evolution as...
My use of Kant's Third Antinomy applies to history, not to states of consciousness. The two levels refer to two aspects of an historical construct and aren't...
'To love one's neighbor was formerly to do him no injury and to bind up his wounds. Henceforth charity, without losing any of its compassion, will attain its...
JL: My use of Kant's Third Antinomy applies to history, not to states of consciousness. The two levels refer to two aspects of an historical construct and...
Let me restate the whole thing in a short take: 1. World history shows a non-random pattern, and this suggests a sequential intepretation, an alternating...