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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (16886)	3/31/2004 5:06:45 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Well basically most people who accept the scientific notions about evolution do so without understanding the basics of science. Recently we completed a ground geophysical survey of an area based on results of an airborne geophysical map. I solicited the opinion of three separate accredited geophysicists to provide a depth calculation to the source target. I received three totally different answers including one that said the target is located in the basement rocks at 300 feet and therefore would be uneconomic to explore further. This is quite interesting because the basement rocks are located at about 2200 feet in this area. So if you want to have a blind faith in any branch of science based on some consensus of leading experts be my guest but right now based on my experience (and my direct experience is the only measure I have) Greg's opinion is just as valid as spontaneous generation or transpermia. Maybe the Sophists were right... "At the core of Sophism is the beleif in the power of rhetoric. In contrast to Plato's foundationalism, the Sophist took a distantly different veiw of reality and truth,a more antifoundationalist approach. They believed that there was no absolute proof of anything, and "instead of language counting for everything, it counts for nothing" (Gibson 285). Sophists saw an insurrmountable gulf between the world and language's limited ability to express things in it. A dog can not be said to be a dog or a cat, a cat, because these are only made up words. They believed that nothing exits and if anything does exits it is inapprehensible by man and if even if it were apprehensible it would be incommunicable. As often quoted of Protagoras "'man is the measure of all things, of existing things that they exits, and of non-existing things that they exit not'" (Gibson 286). Unlike Plato, the Sophists were not concerned with truth "more important than truth value was the insight offered into the inherent ambiguity and relativity of what we can know" (Carter 307)." lcc.gatech.edu