[MD] Empiricism for dummies

[MarshaV]

Mel,

I thought the book great to counter what I find to be childish and 
offensive dribble.  I should be read in every MiddleSchool.   But 
this is not a topic that I care to argue.  I just recently got myself 
in big-time, hot water with a family member with the most innocent, 
yet challenging, little question,   When it comes to their religious 
beliefs people are really weird.

Marsha



At 02:13 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote:
>Did I read of it, the great Silver
>Tome?
>
>Alas, yes.  They are hours of life
>expended as meaniglessly as
>if I were watching TV.  I normally
>make notes as I read, if there
>are significant "structures" in
>a book.  (I like to develop the
>writer's case better than the
>writer does.  It aids my
>understanding.)
>
>With his, I was making
>four pages of notes for every page
>of his--almost all were fallacies
>and such, little was new, and
>none matched the "proofs' that
>already exist.
>
>But, gods bless him for his literary
>success.
>
>I did not say that you stated that
>choice, but that you alluded to it.
>The secific, formulated choice
>existed before your e-mail.  Sorry
>if it was taken otherwise.
>
>I did understand your context of
>the comments as given and did not
>mean to put anything into your words.
>Sorry if it appeared otherwise.
>
>thanks--mel
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "MarshaV" <marshalz at charter.net>
>To: "MD Forum" <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:34 AM
>Subject: Re: [MD] Empiricism for dummies
>
>
> >
> >
> > Greetings Mel,
> >
> > I didn't state that religion and science are equivalent or
> > interchangeable, I merely stated them as two hypothetical choices and
> > my preference.
> >
> > Did you actually read the book???  Call me stupid if you like, but I
> > thought the book presented many _solid_ examples and arguments of why
> > Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with their dogma and accoutrements,
> > should be flushed.
> >
> > Besides I am awaiting the return of the Great Handkerchief.
> >
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
><snip>> .
> > .
> > Science does not know its debt to imagination.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
> > .
>
>mel:
>Actually, the most gifted scientists trumpet the value of
>imagination frequently and they are awed by it.
>
>

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