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LaDue allegedly told authorities he was fascinated by the school shootings at Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech and Columbine, and that he idolized Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

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BA77 accuses me of accepting "replacement theology" but can't be bothered to defend that claim. BA77:
Mung, to step on a few toes here, IMHO you are as bad as a a YEC in regards to your acceptance of replacement theology despite all countervailing evidence to the contrary.
BA77, if you cannot or will not defend that accusation, you should retract it.Mung
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BA77 claims that until some group of people occupies the land of Palestine and calls itself "the nation of Israel" that God's promises to Israel have not been fulfilled.
New International Version It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. New Living Translation Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God's people!
QEDMung
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'Zionists such as yourself like to claim that this is a “fulfillment” of Bible prophecy, but can’t actually defend that claim." The claim is exceedingly easy to defend from a MULTIPICITY of scriptures however I doubt very seriously UD is the place to have doctrinal debates. Name a time and place appropriate and I will be there. New to posting on UD but not new at all.mikeenders
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BA77:
Mung the reason I bring all this empirical evidence up is because I certainly do not think that Christ’s second return will be any less dramatic than his defeat of Death!
When was Death defeated? Or do you believe that Christ defeated Death, but Death has not yet been defeated?Mung
May 4, 2014
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BA77:
Mung, to step on a few toes here, IMHO you are as bad as a a YEC in regards to your acceptance of replacement theology despite all countervailing evidence to the contrary.
Well, that's just too timely a coincidence to ignore. I am currently reading a book explaining the amillennial position. Kingdom Come: The Amillennial Alternative I opened it this evening to discover that I had last left off at the beginning of Chapter Six: Who are the People of God? Israel, the Church, and "Replacement" Theology. See also: Why I Changed My Mind About the Millennium So whatever ideas I have I'd already formed before ever reading this book and chapter. But let's see what he says! My advice to you, dear reader, is to not be like BA77, who continually buries his head in the sand and refuses to confront information that contradicts his preciously held beliefs, but rather be like the Bereans.Mung
May 4, 2014
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BA77, do you think Paul was the first to advocate "replacement theology"? Galatians 4:21-31 New American Standard Bible (NASB) Bond and Free 21 Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman. 23 But the son by the bondwoman [a]was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise. 24 [b]This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children [c]who are to be slaves; [d]she is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free; [e]she is our mother. 27 For it is written, “Rejoice, barren woman who does not bear; Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor; For more numerous are the children of the desolate Than of the one who has a husband.” 28 And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, For the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, [f]but of the free woman. here Classic dispensationalism claims that the church is a "mystery" and unknown to the prophets. It denies that there are any promises in the Old Testament that are given to the church. Of course, that view cannot hold up under scrutiny and thus we now have a strain of dispensationalism called "progressive dispensationalism."Mung
May 4, 2014
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Here's some more links for you BA: Newton Manuscripts The Newton Papers The Newton Project Manuscripts held by National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel Newton Collection - JNUL Newton's SecretsMung
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BA77:
The elephant in the room for you is that Israel is once again a nation.
There is a populace in the middle east, occupying a land known as "Palestine" that has taken upon itself the name "Israel." The problem for you is that it's a non-sequitur to claim that based upon these facts "Israel is once again a nation." Zionists such as yourself like to claim that this is a "fulfillment" of Bible prophecy, but can't actually defend that claim. This contradiction is particularly apparent when the Zionist is also a dispensationalist (as most are), who claims that there is no fulfillment of biblical prophecy that must precede "the rapture." The "prophetic clock" has stopped. You just don't get to have it both ways. You just can't have "prophetic fulfillment" before the rapture. Make up your mind, BA77.Mung
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BA77:
Mung, I’ve said my piece and I will comment no more because it will be fruitless with you. i.e. believe what you want, you will anyway!
I thought we had an understanding BA77. You could post all the links you wanted to in lieu of actual debate and I would respect that and no longer criticize it, as I have in the past. So don't pretend that you want to debate or that such debate would be fruitless. The fact of the matter is that you cannot defend your position, argue for your position, or refute my position. Posting references to articles that you cannot defend is not a substitute for knowing and understanding what you believe and being able to offer a defense for what you believe. Paul:
It is because we realise the paramount importance of the spiritual that we labour and struggle.
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BA77:
Mung the reason I bring all this empirical evidence up is because I certainly do not think that Christ’s second return will be any less dramatic than his defeat of Death!
At least suggesting that the defeat of death is a past event. Is it? The defeat of death. Past or future? Now I'll watch you back-pedal and refuse to acknowledge the defeat of death, making your assertion that Christ's return will be no less dramatic just so many empty words. According to what logic do you claim that the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, ending the priesthood and the sacrifices, was not a dramatic event? In one post you raise the dramatic events of Luke 21:24 but in the next you assert that they were not really all that dramatic. In one post you claim the events are past and in the next you claim they are future. Make up your mind, BA77.Mung
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Mung, I've said my piece and I will comment no more because it will be fruitless with you. i.e. believe what you want, you will anyway!bornagain77
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Mung the reason I bring all this empirical evidence up is because I certainly do not think that Christ's second return will be any less dramatic than his defeat of Death! Verse, Quote, and Music:
Matthew 24:27 "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them. "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Ask the Experts: What Is a Near-Death Experience (NDE)? - article with video Excerpt: "Very often as they're moving through the tunnel, there's a very bright mystical light ... not like a light we're used to in our earthly lives. People call this mystical light, brilliant like a million times a million suns..." - Jeffery Long M.D. - has studied NDE's extensively http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/beyondbelief/experts-death-experience/story?id=14221154#.T_gydvW8jbI "Suddenly, I was enveloped in this brilliant golden light. The light was more brilliant that the light emanating from the sun, many times more powerful and radiant than the sun itself. Yet, I was not blinded by it nor burned by it. Instead, the light was a source of energy that embraced my being." Ned Dougherty's - Fast Lane To Heaven - Quoted from "To Heaven and Back" pg. 71 - Mary C. Neal MD The Afters - Light Up The Sky - Official Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_318212&feature=iv&src_vid=h3Q-R4esGf4&v=8LQH6UDi15s
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Mung, we could argue Theology all day for weeks on end. As we have already contributed quite a few days on this topic all to no avail. and, As you well know, I find your theology to have gaping holes in it. The main reason I find your theology 'contrived' is because of its lack of empirical support.,,, The elephant in the room for you is that Israel is once again a nation. Isaac Newton himself held that prophecy predicted the return of Israel. So you have to downplay Newton, the father of physics, as some sort of lunatic too. Not an easy task for you. Moreover, math and archeology, as mentioned previously in post 4, both confirm the return of Israel as to being a fulfilled prophecy. With Iran nudging closer to nuclear weapons, the world sits on the precipice of a Third World War in the Middle East. Which is another uncomfortable prophecy for you to ignore. Moreover, although Christianity has been growing since its inception, first in the west and now, thankfully after Mao's brutal persecution, in the east,
China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years – 19 Apr 2014 Excerpt: Prof Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, believes that number will swell to around 160 million by 2025. That would likely put China ahead even of the United States, which had around 159 million Protestants in 2010 but whose congregations are in decline. By 2030, China’s total Christian population, including Catholics, would exceed 247 million, placing it above Mexico, Brazil and the United States as the largest Christian congregation in the world, he predicted. “Mao thought he could eliminate religion. He thought he had accomplished this,” Prof Yang said. “It’s ironic – they didn’t. They actually failed completely.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html
Despite all this growth for Christianity, we still live in a very, very, fallen world. Abortion is rampant. Wars still rage. People hate God without reason. The debates right here on UD should be more than enough proof for you that we presently live in a 'culture of death' instead of a 'culture of life' as would be expected during Christ's return. If Christ now rules and reigns in this world something is terribly, terribly, amiss. This should be a major clue for you that you are not on the right track Theologically speaking. But to go further into empirical evidence, The Shroud of Turin, which I resolutely hold to be an authentic witness to the resurrection of Christ, tells of an extremely powerful event:
Scientific hypotheses on the origin of the body image of the Shroud - 2010 Excerpt: for example, if we consider the density of radiation that we used to color a single square centimeter of linen, to reproduce the entire image of the Shroud with a single flash of light would require fourteen thousand lasers firing simultaneously each on a different area of linen. In other words, it would take a laser light source the size of an entire building. http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_22597_l3.htm Scientists say Turin Shroud is supernatural - December 2011 Excerpt: After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists. However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen material with high-intensity ultra violet lasers, undermining the arguments of other research, they say, which claims the Turin Shroud is a medieval hoax. Such technology, say researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Enea), was far beyond the capability of medieval forgers, whom most experts have credited with making the famous relic. "The results show that a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," they said. And in case there was any doubt about the preternatural degree of energy needed to make such distinct marks, the Enea report spells it out: "This degree of power cannot be reproduced by any normal UV source built to date." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-say-turin-shroud-is-supernatural-6279512.html
In fact, besides the intense burst of light, gravity itself was overcome in the resurrection of Christ:
Particle Radiation from the Body - July 2012 - M. Antonacci, A. C. Lind Excerpt: The Shroud’s frontal and dorsal body images are encoded with the same amount of intensity, independent of any pressure or weight from the body. The bottom part of the cloth (containing the dorsal image) would have born all the weight of the man’s supine body, yet the dorsal image is not encoded with a greater amount of intensity than the frontal image. Radiation coming from the body would not only explain this feature, but also the left/right and light/dark reversals found on the cloth’s frontal and dorsal body images. http://www.academicjournals.org/sre/PDF/pdf2012/30JulSpeIss/Antonacci.pdf A Quantum Hologram of Christ's Resurrection? by Chuck Missler Excerpt: “You can read the science of the Shroud, such as total lack of gravity, lack of entropy (without gravitational collapse), no time, no space—it conforms to no known law of physics.” The phenomenon of the image brings us to a true event horizon, a moment when all of the laws of physics change drastically. Dame Piczek created a one-fourth size sculpture of the man in the Shroud. When viewed from the side, it appears as if the man is suspended in mid air (see graphic, below), indicating that the image defies previously accepted science. The phenomenon of the image brings us to a true event horizon, a moment when all of the laws of physics change drastically. http://www.khouse.org/articles/2008/847
Moreover, the process that produced the image on the Shroud was a quantum process not a classical process:
The absorbed energy in the Shroud body image formation appears as contributed by discrete values - Giovanni Fazio, Giuseppe Mandaglio - 2008 Excerpt: This result means that the optical density distribution,, can not be attributed at the absorbed energy described in the framework of the classical physics model. It is, in fact, necessary to hypothesize a absorption by discrete values of the energy where the 'quantum' is equal to the one necessary to yellow one fibril. http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/AAPP/article/view/C1A0802004/271
The following scientist offers a very interesting insight into the power involved in reconciling the mental universe of Quantum Mechanics with the space-time of gravity, i.e. General Relativity:
How the Power of Intention Alters Matter - Dr. William A. Tiller Excerpt: "Most people think that the matter is empty, but for internal self consistency of quantum mechanics and relativity theory, there is required to be the equivalent of 10 to 94 grams of mass energy, each gram being E=MC2 kind of energy. Now, that's a huge number, but what does it mean practically? Practically, if I can assume that the universe is flat, and more and more astronomical data is showing that it's pretty darn flat, if I can assume that, then if I take the volume or take the vacuum within a single hydrogen atom, that's about 10 to the minus 23 cubic centimeters. If I take that amount of vacuum and I take the latent energy in that, there is a trillion times more energy there than in all of the mass of all of the stars and all of the planets out to 20 billion light-years. That's big, that's big. And if consciousness allows you to control even a small fraction of that, creating a big bang is no problem." - Dr. William Tiller - has been a professor at Stanford U. in the Department of materials science & Engineering http://www.beyondtheordinary.net/williamtiller.shtml
And indeed the Shroud gives witness of a 'singularity' event
THE EVENT HORIZON (Space-Time Singularity) OF THE SHROUD OF TURIN. - Isabel Piczek - Particle Physicist Excerpt: We have stated before that the images on the Shroud firmly indicate the total absence of Gravity. Yet they also firmly indicate the presence of the Event Horizon. These two seemingly contradict each other and they necessitate the past presence of something more powerful than Gravity that had the capacity to solve the above paradox. http://shroud3d.com/findings/isabel-piczek-image-formation The Center Of The Universe Is Life - General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Entropy and The Shroud Of Turin - video http://vimeo.com/34084462 Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and upon earth."
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BA77:
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. - Luke 21:24
How is it that you can interpret Scripture in such a way that you can hold that part of this verse has been fulfilled but not all of it has already been fulfilled?
For those are the days of vengeance and of fulfilling all that is written. - v. 22
There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. v. 23
Which land and which people? Past or future?
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations... v. 24
They who? Past or future?
At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
At what time? They who?
"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
So much for futurism.Mung
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BA77, the passage I quoted from Paul says the Gentiles are grafted in and so also receive the blessing. That's also orthodox Christianity and if you don't believe it that's too bad for you. How you get from that that I accept "replacement theology" is beyond me. The other passage I quoted was Jesus himself speaking. If you claim that he was preaching "replacement theology," then I am proud to be counted in that number with him.
Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.
Sure sounds to me like someone was going to be replaced.
There was a [i]landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to [j]vine-growers and went on a journey. 34 When the [k]harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce. 35 The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them. 37 But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ 39 They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 Therefore when the [l]owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?” 41 They *said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”
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Mung, to step on a few toes here, IMHO you are as bad as a a YEC in regards to your acceptance of replacement theology despite all countervailing evidence to the contrary. Luke 21:24 “They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” i.e. News update, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA_Graphics/MFA%20Gallery/Facts%20About%20Israel%202008/History/history5-newspapers.jpgbornagain77
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Hardly a prophecy of the modern state of Israel.
But some of these branches from Abraham's tree--some of the people of Israel--have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessing God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God's special olive tree.
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"For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, 'The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will remove ungodliness from Jacob,'” http://carm.org/questions-replacement-theologybornagain77
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"Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it." - JesusMung
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The Cultural Impact of Darwinian Evolution - John West, PhD - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFh4whzh_NUbornagain77
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Do Something - Matthew West - music http://myktis.com/songs/do-something/bornagain77
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Thanks Guys, Vunder I think Querius gave an excellent response to your 'worry' at post 18. You also ask
,,,Some trusted site where I can refresh myself on the fundamentals of physics perhaps?
Well in that regards, and I don't know how helpful I may be, but it is interesting to note where fundamental physics is at right now and how man's 'sci-fi' imagination has tried to cope with that advance. Advances in physics has now driven man's understanding of reality to the point of realizing that reality is not 'materialistic' in its structure, as had long been presumed, but reality is instead 'information theoretic' in its structure. Of what I've read thus far, nothing conveys this shift in understanding in fundamental physics better than Wheeler's following quote:
"I think of my lifetime in physics as divided into three periods. In the first period, extending from the beginning of my career until the early 1950?s, I was in the grip of the idea that Everything Is Particles. I was looking for ways to build all basic entities – neutrons, protons, mesons, and so on – out of the lightest, most fundamental particles, electrons, and photons. I call my second period Everything Is Fields. From the time I fell in love with general relativity and gravitation in 1952 until late in my career, I pursued the vision of a world made of fields, one in which the apparent particles are really manifestations of electric and magnetic fields, gravitational fields, and space-time itself. Now I am in the grip of a new vision, that Everything Is Information. The more I have pondered the mystery of the quantum and our strange ability to comprehend this world in which we live, the more I see possible fundamental roles for logic and information as the bedrock of physical theory." – J. A. Wheeler, K. Ford, Geons, Black Hole, & Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics New York W.W. Norton & Co, 1998, pp 63-64.
The 'sci-fi' response to this new 'information theoretic' understanding in fundamental physics has been for some men to imagine that the universe is 'merely' a computer simulation:
Is God No Better Than A Special Computer? - William Lane Craig - video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xinwkb_b4k4
Scott Aaronson gives a bit of a 'reality check' to that 'sci-fi' line of thought here:
Quantum Computing Promises New Insights, Not Just Supermachines - Scott Aaronson - December 2011 Excerpt: And yet, even though useful quantum computers might still be decades away, many of their payoffs are already arriving. For example, the mere possibility of quantum computers has all but overthrown a conception of the universe that scientists like Stephen Wolfram have championed. That conception holds that, as in the “Matrix” movies, the universe itself is basically a giant computer, twiddling an array of 1’s and 0’s in essentially the same way any desktop PC does. Quantum computing has challenged that vision by showing that if “the universe is a computer,” then even at a hard-nosed theoretical level, it’s a vastly more powerful kind of computer than any yet constructed by humankind. Indeed, the only ways to evade that conclusion seem even crazier than quantum computing itself: One would have to overturn quantum mechanics, or else find a fast way to simulate quantum mechanics using today’s computers. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/scott-aaronson-quantum-computing-promises-new-insights.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=science
While Aaronson's rebuttal is good for a technical point it brings out, a more comprehensive rebuttal to the imaginary 'sci-fi' notion that the universe is merely a computer simulation is here:
Digital Physics Argument for God's Existence - video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Xsp4FRgas Digital Physics Argument Premise 1: Simulations can only exist is a computer or a mind. Premise 2: The universe is a simulation. Premise 3: A simulation on a computer still must be simulated in a mind. Premise 4: Therefore, the universe is a simulation in a mind (2,3). Premise 5: This mind is what we call God. Conclusion: Therefore, God exists.
Hope that helps a little Vunder: Verse and Music:
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD.
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Dionisio @ 16 Matthew 7:21-23Dionisio
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Chalciss @ 19 Agree. Rev. 22:21Dionisio
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BA77:
I believe God speaks to all people in many different ways. Don’t be upset if God doesn’t speak in this certain way to you. He very well could be speaking to you in special ways that He doesn’t speak to other people in. He could speak through your dreams, or visions, or He could speak to you through other people.
So many of us can attest to this fact and say Amen & Amen to that. Fantastic posts by BA77, as usual! :)Chalciss
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Thanks for sharing your story @12, Bornagain77. A lot of people, myself included, have experienced similar, astonishing, things through the living Word of God! VunderGuy, IMHO, the difference between most science fiction and most fantasy is the substitution of advanced technology in place of magic, aliens in place of mythical creatures and gods, and strange new worlds in place of strange old places. Novelty hooks people more than interesting personalities, personal development, discovery of purpose, conflict resolution, examples of integrity and failure, plot reversal, clever surprises, and so on. Genuine science (physics, QM, chemistry, biology, even extrapolations in social sciences), innovative technology, and clever mathematics that are applied to ordinary life is what science fiction should be about. My two cents . . . -QQuerius
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@Graham 2 The point born again is trying to make here, I think, is that there is egg on both institutions that both sides faces of the conversation adhere to, in theory anyways. In other words, if say an atheist were to point to, say, the crusades and all of the terrible stuff done there to try to denounce all religion and all people who at least say they adhere to a given religion or another, then by that logic, the atheist must also paint himself with that same broad brush considering all of the terrible things that atheists themselves have done as well, either trying to advance atheism like most Communistic regimes have tried to do or just bad things that don't involve advancing atheism. The same could be said of the Christian and followers of other religions if they try to point out how many people supposed atheists have killed. In other words, all of this rhetoric flying back and forth about the death-tolls either side has been said to accrue as an attempt to invalidate either side is itself invalid and fallacious. If someone from either side is to try and invalidate the other side, they must meet certain other, more valid criteria. Though, sadly, considering born again's comments, it's probably just me saying this. Anyways, born again, the worry I'm having is that in a few days, I'll be taking a Sci-Fi/Fantasy class (I am a writer in a writing school) and the teacher, from what I've heard, may decide to push the ol' warfare hypothesis and other things that may be found trying for me and this may close my mind to some information that could be invaluable to me as a writer of either genre. What doesn't help is that I have the view that Sci-Fi, for the most part, is just Fantasy with the label of 'SCIENCE!' attached to it to give it more credibility than it actually has and disguise that it's mostly just as much FI as Fantasy, and less about actual, correct, Science. I was wondering what aid you could offer me to get me through such a trying time. Some words of encouragement perhaps? Some trusted site where I can refresh myself on the fundamentals of physics perhaps?VunderGuy
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BA77: So a nutjob gabbed a science quote he liked ? so what ? How many have killed with god on their lips ?
Those who crucified Christ in the first century had God on their lips. Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul the apostle, had God on his lips when persecuted the Christians in the first century.Dionisio
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SQuire Rushnell's Godwink Story for Easter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCsnU8yjg8bornagain77
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Israeli library uploads (Sir Isaac) Newton's theological texts - February 15, 2012 Excerpt: He's considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time.,, However, the curator of Israel's national library's humanities collection said Newton was also a devout Christian who dealt far more in theology than he did in physics,, "He (Sir Isaac Newton) took a great interest in the Jews, and we found no negative expressions toward Jews in his writing," said Levy-Rubin. "He (years before it was remotely feasible) said the Jews would ultimately return to their land." http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-israeli-library-uploads-newton-theological.htmlbornagain77
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