Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Starner" <dvdeug@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
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> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:00:19AM -0700, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> > > How is it "religion"?  Or, why is teaching about Christ "religion",
> yet
> >
> > Some teaching about Jesus may be history, although most of our
> knowledge
> > is from one source.
>
> Four sources.  You forget that the Bible was formerly seperate.
Josephus is usually dragged out in this context as an extra-Biblical source.

But the Bible itself hardly adds up to four independent sources; to many bits
of it appear to've been based partly or wholly on other bits of it.

Re evolution: Regardless of whether is a true or not*, it is undeniably a
pretty influential "meme"** in western civilization. Children should be taught
about it for much the same reasons they should be taught about Catholicism or
Human Rights. This, of course, also goes for certain other "memes" that have
come out of the scientific Ivory Tower, like Relativity Theory.

* To get rid of evolution, you either have to deny that traits are in any part
inherited, or that traits can influence whether an individual will have off-
spring. Don't tell me that Darwinistic evolution, as such, is incompatible
with the idea that the Universe is ~6000 years old or that it was constructed
by giant 14-dimensional teddybears.
** This is to be taken as a non-technical use of the term!

                                                         Andreas

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