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To: Jamey who wrote (15689)	5/20/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: Gregory D. John	Respond to of 39621

Jim, In nature I see a preponderance of evidence of God and none at all. How can I do that? How do I see the colour purple? I see red and no red; I see blue and no blue. My mind cannot begin to fathom either the glory of God or the cold truth of atheism. So I'm stuck in the middle. But such is my personality that I need not force myself to decide, but to continue my quest for that which may never be known. Hoity-toity! There's a great line by Elizabeth Taylor to Truman Capote about her finally "finding" Richard Burton, "I guess, when you find what you've always wanted, that's not where the beginning begins, that's where the end starts." I wonder if that really strikes to the core of escatology... Go to nature for examples and you find all things good and evil. Plumb the animal kingdom for guidance, and you may find that ethics are meaningless. Competition and/or cooperation and/or parasitism and/or symbiosis. Determine a morality, and find an example in nature that shatters it. Oh! if only we could just appeal to Nature and let all of her wisdom poor forth... Nature should be respected for what she is, and not just what we cast upon her. If you're a Christian, then I suggest you go to Jesus for morality, and leave Nature out of it. ;-) OK... that's a little heavy-handed. Tell me if any of this has changed your mind, though. I just wanted to see if the "hard" approach would work. Greg