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Thread ID: 20832 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-11-01
2005-11-01 12:57 | User Profile
From Michael A. Hoffman - there really seems to be a double standard going on against creationists and IDers in here! To secularists, "truth" is ultimately just the opinion of the powerful.
[FONT="Times New Roman"][B][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"]Israeli Newspaper Alleges Talmudic Superstition Basis of Nobel-Winning Economic Theory[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/FONT]
[SIZE="3"][FONT="Times New Roman"][B]At a time when any attempt to incorporate creation science or criticize Darwin's theory is met by thunderous derision from scientists and the media in the US, Nobel Prize winner Robert J. Aumann has allegedly (according to the October, 2005 Israeli news article below), used the book of racist, pornographic fairy tales known as the Talmud ("[I]Mishna Mesechta Kesubos[/I] [93a]") as the basis of his Nobel-prize winning economics, yet no scientist or news hound reporter dares to expose or investigate it.[/B]
Incidentally, "frum" (pronounced "froom") signifies an observant, i.e. orthodox Judaic, who observes all the ridiculous, superstitious commandments decreed by the Pharisees of rabbinic Judaism.[/FONT][/SIZE]
(I cannot transfer the graphic on a newspaper clip that Hoffman presents; see this link:
[url]http://www.revisionisthistory.org/revisionist17.html[/url]
Petr
2005-11-01 13:25 | User Profile
[quote=Petr][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B] yet no scientist or news hound reporter dares to expose or investigate it.[/B][/FONT][/SIZE]
You seem surprised.
John 7:13
2005-11-01 13:38 | User Profile
To secularists, "truth" is ultimately just the opinion of the powerful. That certainly wasn't the case when religious authorities could have people (like Galileo) imprisoned for "heresy."
Truth is simply whatever is true. The closest humans can get to knowing the nature of reality is through empirical observation in combination with inductive and deductive reasoning.
People who believe in mythology like creationism and invisible beings like angels and demons think that people can know truth through "revelation." What that really amounts to is believing something because it "feels right" to your imagination, often due to upbringing and the support of many similarly deluded folks. Of course this is why there's so much religious division in the world, in stark contrast to the worldwide agreement about such things as, say, Schrodinger's equation or the Hamiltonian for a hydrogen atom.
Now, if God actually cared enough about people to appear in the sky (or send an angel) and make it perfectly clear which religion is the correct one -- and clarify other issues as well -- then there'd be no excuse for not believing in that religion. Then it would be an empirical matter that everyone could agree on. But either God doesn't care enough to do such a thing, or he doesn't exist.