[MD] John's Reading of Absolute Idealism Confirmed by Bob

[MarshaV]

Damn scary! 


 

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[mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Ian Glendinning
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [MD] John's Reading of Absolute Idealism Confirmed by Bob

And if anyone wants to see the dangers of allowing theist religion
into this space look no further than Francis Collins.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/francis-collins-pollutes-
science-with-religion/

Scary.
Ian

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ian
Glendinning<ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lu, I can live with that - I have similar metaphors in mind. "God"
> as the ineffable core of natural processes - Q / DQ as we call it
> here.
>
> I was actually thinking of those members (like Dave) who see any
> weakening of defenses against personal omnipotent gods as too
> dangerous - and pragmatically I can understand that too. (It was Dave
> who turned the baby / bathwater metaphor against your original point -
> too neatly dividing god and faith for me.)
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Louise Pryor<bypryordesign at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> Ian said:
>>
>>
>>
>>> With Baby and Bathwater I'm not sure God and Religion fall neatly
>>> either side of this metaphor.
>>> Religion ? Certainly, certainty that entertains uncertainty is better
>>> than blind faith (in anything). Certainty with quality as Lu said.
>>> God ? kinda depends what you mean - said the non-theist.
>>>
>>> Lu replies:
>>
>> When I refer to "God", the "Dynamic Quality" that is spoken of here -
only
>> as an entity in and of itself - best describes my concept.
>>
>> Lu
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