Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:02:18 -0800
From: "Senex R. Rupicapra" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: Darwin and God


Dave Hayman wrote:
> 
> anar wally wrote:
> >
 
>                                     Society changes; we
> live in a drastically different world today, which has
> different values and interprets writing in different ways.
> Living people reading the Bible have to interpret it, as they
> do all texts from philosophy to laundry lists, and they
> *cannot* interpret a 2,000 year old text in the same way that
> Bible contemporaries did. They can try, but as long as their
> experience differs, as long as they have any awareness of living
> in a different world, they can't do it. 
> This of course does not mean that it is impossible to
> gather insight from an ancient text, but the quality 
>of these insights will always depend far more on the
> consciousness doing the reading than the words on the 
>pages.

	mebbe so, but pride still be pride, greed still
be greed, lust lust, et cetera.  times change, societies
"advance", and folk (?) well, they still be folk.  the 
same needs, same desires--even though they got MTV and the 
internet.

	old goat.
	"Morality is nothing but political hygiene."
        ---Sir Karl Popper
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