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Re: More than you ever wanted to know. . . .



Doug Craigen wrote:

I will make a one-time foray into this thread. My experience with
religious threads in physics groups is that things get pretty chaotic
quickly, and the one thing that everybody agrees on is that we're not
supposed to be having this discussion here anyways.

Sr. Margaret Clarke wrote:

...etc...

I can't see the fundamental disagreement here?

Margaret Clarke is saying that many biblical scholars are saying that, given the
interval between the events recorded in the new testament and when they were
actually written down, that one would not necessarily expect a literal
interpretation to be always correct (a similar argument can of course be applied
to the old testament, only more so) - but if people want to be literalist that is
their right of course.
Doug Craven is saying, I think, that it is futile to try to literally take natural
phenomena such as the star at Bethlehem & use them to prove or disprove the
validity of the new testament.

Seems to me that both statements complement each other rather than argue against
each other?

Cheers
Margaret Mazzolini

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Dr. Margaret Mazzolini
Astrophysics & Supercomputing Group,
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
email: mmazzolini@swin.edu.au

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