Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scgvaxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!dan From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion Subject: Re: A kudos for humanism Message-ID: <273@scgvaxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 21:55:18 EST Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.273 Posted: Tue Feb 26 21:55:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:41:57 EST References: <280@ihu1m.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich) Distribution: net Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.flame:8636 net.religion:5818 Summary: In article <280@ihu1m.UUCP> gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) writes: > >Humanism posits a reality--out there--that man can aspire to >know *irrespective* of any states of grace. He who would >crush humanism mutters that Galileo got off too easy, and spits >on Copernicus, Vesalius, Newton, DaVinci, and Descartes. > Not neccesarily so, considering Newton was also what we would call according to today's terminology, a fundamentalist Christian. In fact, Newtom would probably be offended by your statement, being a great admirer of Galileo and Copernicus. Newton, and many others who share his religious convictions, will agree that one can aspire to great knowledge *irrespective* of any state of grace, however, as Proverbs tell us, there is knowledge, and there is wisdom! The ancient Hebrew saw a distinction between the two. He saw wisdom as the ability to appropiate in ones life THE DEVINE PRINCIPLES so as to improve ones quality of life before God and man! This wisdom, of course, is *irrespective* of any human knowledge! Hence, the biblical statement; The Beginning of Wisdom is knowing God!