Re: virus: Re: META: topical rules

Richard Aynesworthy (overload@fastmail.ca)
Thu, 6 May 1999 14:20:53 -0400 (EDT)

...correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what was described in Richard Brodie's post about level two thinking?

> There is a difference between an open mind and a wise one. Anything
> goes doesn't wash.
> Most of us have arrived at atheism through science, reason, and the
> processes of elimination.
>
> When Christians use the same arguments we may have thought through a
> billion times we are not being intolerant to reject it out of
> hand, we are wisely standing against what we consider superstition
> and ancient anachronisms. We may have been there too, at one time.
>
> Evolutionary Biology and Cosmology have lots of information that
> Christians ignore. Why not teach these if we can.

...for the same reason that exclusive teaching of Xtianity (or any other codified belief system) is a mistake. There's plenty of VALID information in Christianity (etc. etc. ad infinitum) that atheists ignore. Why not teach it all?

psypher



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