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Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:39:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John P. Henderson writes:
> Regardless of all that though, the notion that a supernatural thing is real
> simply because enough people believe is clearly not scientific. Based on
> that sort of thinking, are we to say that the world really was flat during
> the Dark Ages and it magically became round later on? Are we to say that
> the universe actually revolved around the Earth until Copernicus suggested
> otherwise?
Some VERY good science fiction has been done using that notion (that reality
is mutable, based on beliefs of the observers) or similar ones (in
particular I always enjoy a re-read of _The Practice Effect_ by David Brin)...
> You, know, I always believed that the world was actually in
> shades gray until World War II, since all the photos of before that tend to
> be black and white.
what about paintings??? :-) I've seen color paintings from before the war
(Picasso's "blue period" presumably has to do with colors...) :-)
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| (...) existance, than one must acknowledge the probability that the "Christian God" will be facing extinction in the near future. The nations that are Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist (not in the article above presumably because it is more a philosophy (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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