Personman - Latest Comments on Monkey business http://personman.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 lucas [Member] in response to: Monkey business Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:06:41 +0000 [Member] c43859@http://personman.com/ <p>Have you ever read the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? It is work of fiction about a teacher/gorilla, but don&#8217;t let that scare you off. It offers a different interpretation of parts of the Old Testament. Again, it&#8217;s fiction, so I&#8217;m not sure how much research was done, but it is a completely different perspective from anything I had ever heard before.</p> Have you ever read the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? It is work of fiction about a teacher/gorilla, but don’t let that scare you off. It offers a different interpretation of parts of the Old Testament. Again, it’s fiction, so I’m not sure how much research was done, but it is a completely different perspective from anything I had ever heard before.

]]> http://personman.com/monkey_business#c43859 jksterup [Member] in response to: Monkey business Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:56:47 +0000 [Member] c43768@http://personman.com/ <p>I&#8217;m reading Carl Sagan&#8217;s new book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, which is basically a transcript of a series of lectures he gave.</p> <p>At the end of the first chapter he says something I really like:</p> <blockquote><p>If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It or whatever the appropriate pronoun is, prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its inticracy? I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship.</p></blockquote> I’m reading Carl Sagan’s new book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, which is basically a transcript of a series of lectures he gave.

At the end of the first chapter he says something I really like:

If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It or whatever the appropriate pronoun is, prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its inticracy? I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship.

]]> http://personman.com/monkey_business#c43768 hundiejo [Member] in response to: Monkey business Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:38:05 +0000 [Member] c43767@http://personman.com/ <blockquote><p>Growing up in the church, Charles Darwin was presented as a dark figure, a shoddy scientist who somehow duped the entire scientific community into agreeing with him.</p></blockquote> <p>Don&#8217;t you hate that? It really prevents one from trying to come to find a way to reconcile the two ideas.</p> <p>The day theology freezes its view of science is (was) the day it became bad theology.</p> <p>It is good to see people in the church be open to these ideas. I really don&#8217;t know where I am going here, but posts like this give me hope for a body of believers with their heads not up their asses.</p>

Growing up in the church, Charles Darwin was presented as a dark figure, a shoddy scientist who somehow duped the entire scientific community into agreeing with him.

Don’t you hate that? It really prevents one from trying to come to find a way to reconcile the two ideas.

The day theology freezes its view of science is (was) the day it became bad theology.

It is good to see people in the church be open to these ideas. I really don’t know where I am going here, but posts like this give me hope for a body of believers with their heads not up their asses.

]]> http://personman.com/monkey_business#c43767 brendoman [Member] in response to: Monkey business Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:27:28 +0000 [Member] c43766@http://personman.com/ <p>Way to be specific there Jman.</p> Way to be specific there Jman.

]]> http://personman.com/monkey_business#c43766 Jman [Visitor] in response to: Monkey business Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:21:55 +0000 Jman [Visitor] c43765@http://personman.com/ <p>This is chock full of contradictions&#8230;.</p> This is chock full of contradictions….

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