In Reply to: however, in the same article..... posted by :c) on October 14, 2005 at 22:20:52:
Interesting--I seem to recall that the Soviet Union in its atheistic/naturalistic heyday was particularly fond of accusing opponents of rationalist/materialist atheism and its offshoots, evolution and the communist doctrine itself (an irresistable yet undiscernible force countering Delta G--free energy--lost in EVERY physico-chemical reaction and the CONSTANT proof of entropic doom----upwardly organizing everything, including history itself) of psychopathology; which got them a free trip to the Gulag.
That's rather pseudo-intellectual; I'd say--even anti-intellectual.
Relativism? New Age/Hinuism/pantheism makes evil the co-equal opposite of good, and within the atheistic paradigm, survival of the fittest is the only observable "law"; the Marquis de Sade's dictum that "whatever is, is right" fits nicely within that data-free opinion.
Care for a debate on creationsim, here on Journeys where a spiritual point of view is not assumed, a priori, to have no rational value (rather like the doctrinnaire "anti-supernaturalists" on GenX and else where?)--as well as sticking to the observable as "true science"?
How about a discussion of the "singularity" of the "big Bang" as just another made-up deity--again based on a data-free opinion rather than actual linearity of cogent thought?
Chemistry, physics, and HONEST cosmology consistently prove the DISorganization of matter, and rationale OUTSIDE of the pale of analytical philosophy and linear logic must be resorted to, to assume otherwise; I've observed.
Therer really is no "reason", along these stricter confines of the philosophy of logic, to NOT assume that God exists, and that He is NOT the deterministic deity of determinism, but a THEISTIC being Who can indeed interrupt the chain of cause-and-effect at will.
The fuzzy-thinking paleontologist observably does not cross these hurdles into actual science; he merely appeals to a naive public which has accepted a currently popular, non-linear grouping of weak hypotheses as not only theory, but more than that: an objective "modeling" of reality against which there can be no argument or true investigation.
Like Mo'.
Hmmm.
Respectfully,
OT2 (OldtimerToo)
The Mad Ferret