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Date/Time 15 Mar 2014 9:05:25pm
I explained my metaphor in my post, please do explain yours. A metaphor without context is just name-calling.... a childish activity that I stopped doing many decades ago. I also explained in my original post the issue of physics vs metaphysics (as applied to theology). When a religious belief that pertains to metaphysics claims to be relevant (show intervention) into the physical world then science must be called in to make a judgment. Mehdi has to produce his winged horse as soon as he claims to have stepped into the realm of physics. He does not if he remains confined within the limits of metaphysics. Claiming to be talking physics, suggesting that there is indeed a winged horse, but failing to produce it is called delusion. The Catholics for instance are getting smarter and smarter in that regard. In fact, they are quite comfortable with the process of organic Evolution, which is consistent with a non-interventionist God, where physics and metaphysics remain separated after the initial fiat. This is perfectly consistent theologically with the Christian belief of human freedom, that allows the possibility of committing sins. It is essential to engage religious people, and provide them with the answers to their existential questions that they currently seek in religion (with God, Devil, Heaven, Hell and the rest of the paraphernalia) rather than dismissing them as utterly irrelevant. Evolutionary scientists must not allow themselves to become Talibanised. My hope is that good old Julian Huxley's Evolutionary Humanism may start to truly take off soon.