Should schools teach Creationism along with Evolution ? (164)
Benny1518: Dragos... I appreciate your balanced input. Science and faith are very important in every civilize society. No matter how atheistic a society is people's belief in God cannot be wiped out. Hence, we should encourage our children to think for themselves.
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others.
Faith and force . . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian.
-- Denis Diderot, Addition aux Pensees philosophiques, from John Daintith, et al, eds. The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (2000) p. 34, quoted from R, Rotando, in a personal letter to Cliff Walker (December 17, 2001)
That Faint Guiding Light is your Mind,and the Mystics want you to discard it!
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Conrad73: The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others.Faith and force . . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian.
-- Denis Diderot, Addition aux Pensees philosophiques, from John Daintith, et al, eds. The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (2000) p. 34, quoted from R, Rotando, in a personal letter to Cliff Walker (December 17, 2001)
That Faint Guiding Light is your Mind,and the Mystics want you to discard it!
Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others.Faith and force . . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian.
-- Denis Diderot, Addition aux Pensees philosophiques, from John Daintith, et al, eds. The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (2000) p. 34, quoted from R, Rotando, in a personal letter to Cliff Walker (December 17, 2001)
That Faint Guiding Light is your Mind,and the Mystics want you to discard it!
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Riz.. If a meteor should hit the Earth today a variety of all living things would be wiped out but why are you saying all the dinosaurs died out but not the crocodile and other creatures that was around at the time.
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However, no I have never seen any proof that man lived alongside dinosaurs, I have seen proof that they didn't!!! Therefore I do not believe your stated "Fact", having cast a doubt on this and other theories you post, leads me to believe nothing you post is relevant!!
Ever thought about the environment where various dinosaurs lived? that may give you a clue as to whey some became extinct and others didn't.