From: Alexanian, Moorad (alexanian@uncw.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 08:17:50 EST
I believe everyone approaches any experience, whether scientific or
otherwise, with the tools that one has to address and solve such
problems. What is intolerable is to try to fit data into a scheme
that may be insufficient to explain or accommodate such data. Honesty
and humility is what allows one to realize if the tools available to
him/her are not sufficient to address some problems. In such a case,
the need arises to get better tools or else change the assumptions
that underlies one's worldview in order to incorporate new knowledge.
Moorad
P.s. Remember when you take social sciences that you do not forget
that it is not science!
-----Original Message-----
From: Sondra Brasile [mailto:sbrasile@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:18 AM
To: PASAlist@aol.com; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: agnostisism
Dear Paul and everyone,
All who graciously replied to my letter. Thank you, I have learned more
about why and how you guys do what you do on here this week than in the year
or so that I have subscribed to this list. Even more than when I came out
and asked a while back.
Paul, you did an excellent job of clearing up the paradox I saw being caused
by the "non-Bible believing Chrisitans" that many of you appeared to be. I
can undersand what you are saying and I will give it a lot of thought. (You
were right, I didn't mean "everything" literally.)
Ted, thanks, I guess you know where we're coming from then. You said; "Never
go anywhere you can't take your faith with you." This is good, but I think
it would inhibit growth. My guess is that Jim is going into a "winter"
season where everything dies in order for new growth to occur. Some things
never come back after the winter, some things do, I guess we'll have to wait
for spring.
I learned a new quote, this first two weeks of college, I thought it was
intriguing (you know; "simple minds....;):
"Very few really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few
really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers
they have already shaped in their own minds - justification, explanations,
forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to
open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and
the questioner."
Does anyone know where this is from? Any guesses?
You people seem to tread very close, on a razors edge, to this "whirlwind".
Which I'm not saying is bad...but who said science was boring? You guys are
daredevils.
Wayne: I thought people were "hard" on Jim. As in, they weren't soft. All of
my qualifiers are meant to be taken lightly, I tend to exaggerate :)
Sincerely,
Sondra
PS. I want you all to know I won't be uneducated for long, after 18 years
and 4 children I am beginning college. I'm taking social sciences, though
(criminal justice):) I am so excited!
The answer to the quote: The Vampire Marius, Ann Rice, "The Vampire Lestat".
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