Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Re: Philosophy of science and Creationism Message-ID: <799@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 10:11:58 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.799 Posted: Fri Oct 25 10:11:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:45:38 EST References: <11384@rochester.UUCP> <615@hou2g.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 Summary: In article <634@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes: > People like Alexander > Pope (see the Essay on Man) have been saying for hundreds of > years that because God is OMNISCIENT as well as omnipotent, > and therefore is not subject to questioning. By that same standard, a hypothetical God is not subject to ANY understanding. Even assuming the Bible is inspired by God, we cannot know God's purpose in giving it to us. Because we cannot understand the purpose, we have no way of knowing if God intended us to accept/reject/believe/disbelieve the Bible. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh