Re: Like one person, with one heart

In article <ggpe47$idg$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Micha Berger <micha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Herman Rubin <hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Beware of philosophers trying to explain when they have
no way of knowing the facts.

Thanks for a kneejerk response to my expression of personal pain into
your usual "science trumps religion" garbage. And yes, it's garbage,
since they address entirely different questions.


Regardless of the history, the Tower of Babel is part of Judaism.

The Tower of Babel is Jewish LEGEND, with a tenuous basis
in facts unexplained to them.

Science tells you what you CAN do; it also tells you what
you CANNOT do. Religion gives you the moral code to choose
among the possibilities, not the impossibilities. The word
"Utopia" means "nowhere" in Greek.

Rather than take things off topic by arguing about the science, why
not simply accept the point of the story and actually get what religion
tries to provide?

What religion tries to provide here is not, was not, and
will not be. We had the humanists claiming that the end
of the Cold War would accelerate research; it has had the
opposite effect. The Moshiach, or the Messianic Age as
the Reform philosophers put it, would be a major curse
for mankind, not a blessing.

Personally, I believe in the historicity of all of the Torah after
Genesis 1. But that's no article of faith even within O.

Actually, Genesis 1:1-2+ can be read in accordance with the
Big Bang Theory, and fits it well. There are enough contradictions
in the rest of the Torah that we have to use our knowledge of
ancient times from secular sources to straighten it out. Even
the moral code has its contradictions, and the supposed history
is not factual. It is fairly factual after the time of David.a

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