Posted on 11/13/2006 7:34:14 PM PST by betty boop
Bump!
cool! Congrats!
Indeed, years ago when a group of Young Earth Creationists left Free Republic in a huff and holed up at DesignedUniverse.com the accusation being hurled over the walls was that Free Republic didn’t want creationists around, that evolution had won, yada yada.
Obviously the debate didn’t end there.
Now, just a month or so ago a group of Evolutionists left Free Republic in a huff and holed up at DarwinCentral.org the accusation being hurled over those walls is that Free Republic didn’t want evolutionists around, that creationism had won, yada yada.
And I’m quite sure the debate will not end here either.
Coming out of retirement for one post:
I obviously have not yet read your book, but from your past posts here, and the table of contents you posted from your new book, you are still doing apologetics and philosophy, not science.
There really is a difference.
Thank you, Tirian!
Thank you so very much, GretchenM! So nice to hear from you!
Yes - science is the child of philosophy.
I want a copy. And when is Alamo Girl going to write the definitive expose' on the Downside of Clinton?
I certainly hope you do, Alex Murphy! I'd love to hear your comments.
I like the way you women think. And I like the discussions. And judging by the synopsis your output is ok. Alas, somehow I fell off the ping list last winter.
In order to give a complete and proper place to Newton it should be understood that he was the chief promulgator in the modern era of what was known in the 3rd century AD as the Arian Heresy. (According to this heresy Jesus is fully Man but not fully God.) Its effect was so profound that today the view of christ by the Church of England is not much different from that of Muhammidism. Indeed, its said that Muhammids view of christianity was formed Arian Church.
To get a grip on how profoundly The Arian Heresy gripped the western imagination, its helpful to understand that the deepest reason that Melville began Moby Dick with the words "call me ismael" is that Melville was not a trinitarian. His view of Jesus as being just a righteous wise man is in line with Islam. To be sure, the clockwork universe envisioned by elightenment thinkers is more in line islam than with christianity.
But atheism, arianism and the clockwork universe are ideas which in the modern world are doing a slow fade.
LOLOL! I'd love to have just exactly those words on the back cover. Thank you!
Please let me know where I can get a copy, it will be placed on the (growing like rampant zucchini) "to read" pile.
...oh, and congrats!
Cheers!
Thank you so much, Mrs.Nooseman! We'll let you know just as soon as we figure out how we are going to get it published - whether to pursue a publisher, self publish, print on demand or what.
bump to your success
bttt
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis … to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
I have always regarded such statements as hyperbolic, deliberately provocative if you will, especially from folks as smart as LaPlace. Remember LaPlace was the foremost exponent of Bayesian reasoning until the field was "rediscovered" in the later part of the 20th century. He was acutely aware of the uncertainty of knowledge and did remarkable work applying Bayesian reasoning to problems like the estimation of the mass of Jupiter.
Oh, thank you so very, very much for your encouragements, r9etb! I treasure your views, r9etb - (and not just because you still favor our posts after all this time LOL!)
Thank you, SusiQ!
LOLOL! Thank you so much for your encouragements!
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