Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Science & Religion Message-ID: <555@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:30:17 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.555 Posted: Tue Dec 11 10:30:17 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 05:31:53 EST References: <1418@umcp-cs.UUCP> <20980021@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 29 > > In article <20980005@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes: > > > > >If a religion's benefits are not reproducible, that religion is a fraud. > > >You can only waste your time through membership. > > > > I suppose this means that Judaism is a fraud, because God chose to part the > > Sea of Reeds only once. It seems rather presumptious to me to claim that > > God has to produce miracles on demand-- which is all Tim's statement amounts > > to. Since God is omnipotent, there is no reason to expect him to be bound > > to some sort of rule which can be modelled scientifically. I expect God > > to do lots of unreproducible things, unreproducible in the sense that we > > can't set up the proper situation and expect the miracle to be repeated. > > > > Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe > > In Judaism, the parting of the sea of reeds is typically considered a > metaphor with multiple levels of meaning, which may or may not correspond to > a historical event. > [Tim Maroney] Well, I know I'm not the greatest Jewish scholar in the world (esp. since not Jewish), but I've never read any Judaic literature suggesting something like this. Documentation? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." Psalm 104:33