George:
>Among other things, this puts the question of "the delay of the
>parousia" in a different light. On a cosmic scale, 2000 years is no
>delay at all!
Ringo:
(sorry - couldn't resist)
Serendipity strikes - after reading these posts I visited another
page that I check in on from time to time, called "Edge", which
contains ongoing discussions about philosophy of science, right now
has interesting give and take on John Horgan's view that "science"
as we know it is in its twilight. Lots of talking past each other,
using same words with different definitions, but thought-provoking
anyway. It's at http://www.edge.org/ . One of the current comments
quotes J. D. Bernal, _The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: An Inquiry
into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul_, New York
E.P. Dutton, 1929, p. 28:
"We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain
about its death."
Carol
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