Re: [asa] spong wrong

I would just refer to his email newsletter, "Bishop Spong Q & A", of 5 June
2008. (The Q & A is because the format is a question from someone - usually
sympathetic to his verion of Christianity - with his response.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: <rcmetcalf@thinkagain.us>
To: "George Murphy" <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com>
Cc: "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] spong wrong

> Great quote, George. And equally great response by you. Any chance you
> have a citation for the quote? I may wish to use it in a future lecture.
> Thanks.
> RC
>
>> Many on this list will have heard of former Episcopal bishop John Spong
>> but perhaps have never read anything of his. (I say "former" because
>> although he is still in traditional Anglican understanding a bishop, he
>> has not only retired but has said - if I understand him correctly - that
>> he will no longer function as a bishop.) I get his email newsletter,
>> which occasionally has something to worthwhile to offer & more often
>> doesn't, but in any case is a window on ultra-liberal religious thought.
>> Spong thinks he knows something about science & I'm told at one time
>> hoped
>> to head the Episcopal science-theology effort. The following is from his
>> most recent newsletter.
>>
>> "Since human beings are creatures of both time and space, and since we
>> know from the work of Albert Einstein that time and space are relative
>> categories that expand and contract in relation to each other, then we
>> must conclude that any statement made by anyone, who is bound by time and
>> space, will never be absolute. There are no propositional statements,
>> secular or religious, that are exempt from this principle."
>>
>> To which one need only reply, "The speed of light in vacuum is the same
>> in
>> all inertial frames."
>>
>> What Spong has done is to fall for the oldest relativity fallacy there
>> is,
>> "Everything is relative."
>>
>> Shalom
>> George
>> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>

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