[MD] Respect

[X Acto]

Please explain how what I wrote is off topic, Ian?


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From: Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Respect

Hijacking a thread by changing the subject is hardly respect, Ron ?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Ian had submitted:
>
>
> From yesterday's BBC R4 In Our Time - on the ontological argument for god.
>
> QUOTE
> The Ontological Argument is quite a way down the list of subjects with
> which I would have thought I would get absorbed. But I did. The notion
> of a medieval Benedictine monk from Italy, via France, becoming
> Archbishop of Canterbury and sitting down to compose through logic
> alone a proof for the existence of God, and both proving it to the
> satisfaction of some people and not proving it to the satisfaction of
> others, was extremely seductive. ...
>
> The thing about other worlds of knowledge is that the more you examine
> them and the more you get to know them, the more respect you have for
> them. It doesn't matter very much whether they seem to be way off-key
> when compared with "modern" knowledge or information.
> UNQUOTE
>
> [Ron comments]
> I noticed an article that modern science is close to ruling out the existence
> of God. I thought, what a stupid article! What a loaded comment!
>
> It all depends on what you mean by the term "God"
>
> Through examination and rendering other worlds of knowledge more
> intelligible, we can better grasp it's meaning, it's value.
>
> ..
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