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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- In article <1efhvcINNcin@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >>In article <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >>>> One can not reconcile the OT God with the NT God without throwing out
- >>>>all logic and rationality. That is one of the reasons that I rejected
- >>>>Christianity.
- >>>Did you all have the same problem with wave-particle duality?
- >>>Lemme see. Light is particle and light is wave. I cannot reconcile these
- >>>ideas without throwing out all preconceived notions. You say wave and
- >>>I say particle, let's call the whole thing off.
- >>Sigh. More quantum pseudoscience.
- >>Light acts like a particle sometimes and like a wave sometimes.
- >You accuse _me_ of pseuodscience, and then you say this?
- It's not pseudo-science. Ken is correct, though somewhat less than
- precise. Under certain observations, light exhibits the sort of
- characteristics that one would expect it to exhibit if it were a
- wave, and under other observations it exhibits the sorts of behaviors
- it would exhibit if it were a particle. These sets of observations
- are pretty well defined and are mainly caused by the fact that particle
- and wave are classical concepts that are inapplicable at the quantum
- level. It is a failure of our normal model, mainly.
-
- >>The problem
- >>with reconciling the OT and NT gods is that God tends to be described as
- >>being a certain way without qualifications as to "sometimes".
- >And the problem with all of science is that there are vast numbers of
- >completely unreconciled departments all saying apparently contradictory
- >things about the universe. Religion is one of those departments.
- That's garbage. Religion is not a subset of science(non-empirical.)
- It's not like Biology conflicts with Chemistry, sir. Sure there are
- unsettled issues but I hardly would characterize that as "vast numbers of
- completely unreconciled departments all saying apparently contradictory
- things about the universe. "
-
- >I have absolutely no problem reconciling the OT and NT, and I'm not even a
- >Christian. How does a parent act towards a spoilt child?
- Why does one set rules out for a child, sir?
-
- -Ekr
-
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