[MD] Art and Stories

[John Carl]

Krimel,

I mentioned to Ron a biologist Elisabet Sahtouris (www.sahtouris.com) who
uses the analogy of a butterfly's cells  lying dormant in a caterpillar to
illustrate human ideas lying dormant in the dominant society till their
opportunity comes - when the caterpillar has gorged itself into helpless
torpor.

I immediately thought of this forum as being composed of those kinds of
cells, waiting for the Giant to fall in order to rise, shine and fly.

It's a pretty conceit, anyway.  But why I bring her up now to you Krimel,
was the quote I heard in her radio interview yesterday, that intrigued me,
 was her scientific perspective on theism is that you don't get any
butterflies if you go around stomping on caterpillars.

Now THAT, is a cool aphorism.

John

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Krimel <Krimel at krimel.com> wrote:

> [John]
> Good point about fundamentalists missing out.  I agree completely.
>  Atheists
> also usually miss this point as well.
>
> [Krimel]
> Except that atheists do not have scriptures to misinterpret.
>
> [John]
> In fact, I often think of fundamentalists and atheists as two sides of the
> same coin.  Both sides are very sure of themselves and their intellectual
> encapsulations.
>
> [Krimel]
> Certainty was or at last should have been a casualty of the last century.
> It
> does tend to linger but a bit of skepticism and a dose of probability is
> usually healthy.
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