Comments on: Free your mind, and your soul will follow

By: cs

cs — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:42:15 +0000

See the Top 10 Intelligent Designs for a one-stop reference to your choices among the popular creation myths.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:13:58 +0000

And don’t forget to give Sun Ra his props:

http://www.missioncreep.com/mw/sunra.html

By: Arun

Arun — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:05:52 +0000

Christianity/Islam/Judaism have essentially the same creation story.

The Hindus have a cyclic cosmology with time-scales of billions of years; plus parallel universes. Some idea of the time-scales involved are here:
http://www.aaronsrod.com/time-cycles/time-cycles-03.html

has as good a translation as any of part of the Surya Siddhanta. One needn’t take the rest of the material seriously.

As to what the numbers mean, God alone knows while some people (continue with the URL above) find in its ratios an “analysis of the mean solar motion…. a conceptual structure based upon three mean motions for the Sun and two seven-fold subcycles of the precession”.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:03:25 +0000

Yes, Steve, this is what gets me about the creationists. There are so many creation myths and religious stories, why is *theirs* the one that is correct? It is so Christian-centric it’s ridiculous.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:23:00 +0000

Doesn’t this assume that God is the god of christian mythology? What about Odin or Zeus or the various Aztec or Hindu deities? After all wasn’t Quezecoatl was a snake with wings? Surely the fact that there are snakes and creatures with wings can’t be pure coincidence!

By: David Moles

David Moles — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:23:02 +0000

In college I had a recently born-again housemate ask me whether, if I was presented with evidence of a miracle, I would accept it, or whether I’d still refuse to believe because miracles are “scientifically impossible”.

I wish I’d heard of Karl Popper back then.

And George Clinton.

By: Xark!

Xark! — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:29:26 +0000

Today’s links, etc.

Media Research Center: CNN spreading disinformation about Global Warming, making people think it’s real. No doubt those ill-informed men and women on the street have relied on the preponderance of fear-mongering media reports. (That’s the problem wi…

By: Athena

Athena — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:24:31 +0000

So, from your title, am I to presume that my soul is in my ass? : )