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  Re: Schoolgirl's crucifix banned         


Author: Richard Tobin
Date: Jan 19, 2007 07:36

In article bt.com>,
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> Whose sin? What is the mechanism by which a sin causes a gene mutation?
>
>As I have explained upthread, I am no microbiologist, and the above is my
>belief, not my contention. In other words, I can't defend it
>microbiologically and I don't intend to try.

Fair enough. But as far as I am aware, there aren't *any*
microbiologists who even have an idea of how such a thing might
happen. It just isn't plausible.
>Similarly, I cannot explain to you why any even number greater than two can
>be expressed as the sum of two primes. Nor do I even know it to be true. It
>is my belief that it is true, and I consider the belief a reasonable one;
>but it is not one I would care to defend in an adversarial environment.

I'm surprised you believe it. I would be surprised if it were not
true - see http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/goldbach.png which
shows how many ways each even number up to a million can be expressed
as a sum of two primes - but I would not go so far as to say I believe it.
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  Re: Schoolgirl's crucifix banned         


Author: Amethyst Deceiver
Date: Jan 19, 2007 07:30

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Amethyst Deceiver said:
>
>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> Amethyst Deceiver said:
>>>
>>>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>>> The Massive Continuity of Ducks said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In message bt.com>, Richard Heathfield
>>>>>> writes:
>>>>>>> Um, what? Isn't "unmarried" pretty much the definition of
>>>>>>> "single"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No. It means "unmarried".
>>>>>
>>>>> All right, I'll bite: what does "single" mean in this bizarre
>>>>> newspeak?
>>>>
>>>> "Single" for me is without a partner. "Unmarried", however, does ...
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  Re: Schoolgirl's crucifix banned         


Author: Richard Tobin
Date: Jan 19, 2007 07:02

In article bt.com>,
Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> I think it's obvious that Sam was asking whether you think they need
>> healing of homosexuality.
>I think it's obvious that I was answering that I think that everyone needs
>healing of whatever ills befall them

I think eveyone agrees that people need healing of their ills. Sam
was trying to get you to say explicitly that you consider
homosexuality to be in that class. I assume that Sam, like me, doesn't
consider homosexuality to be anything of the sort.

Considering homosexuality to be an "ill" seems to fall squarely within
the definition of homophobia, though there are of course much worse
manifestations of it.

-- Richard
--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
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  Re: Schoolgirl's crucifix banned         


Author:
Date: Jan 19, 2007 07:01

"Richard Heathfield" wrote in message
news:i9KdnQRZAanEXy3YRVnygQA@bt.com...
> Uno-Hoo! said:
>
>>
>> "Richard Heathfield" wrote in message
>> news:ls-dnQwQc8M0IjLYnZ2dnUVZ8qijnZ2d@bt.com...
>>> C S Lewis has dealt adequately
>>> with this subject. If you need a reference, I can probably find one.
>>
>> Has he answered the conundrum of who created god?
>
> I expect so, but it is in any case trivial to answer. Cause and effect are
> characteristics of time, and time is finite. I think of time as a subset
> of
> eternity. God exists in eternity. No cause required.

Yet another religious cop-out Richard. Until you can demonstrate to me that
something can have lasted for ever, without any beginning, I will treat that
as nonsense.
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