Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ldh@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu (Lonnie D Harvel) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Did Erasmus live in vain? Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 08:46:41 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 37 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , sc1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen Chan) writes: |>> >Excerpts from netnews.soc.religion.christian: 21-Nov-90 Re: Did Erasmus |>> live in vain? John Graves@cellbio.duke (2396) |>> |>> >A requirement to believe by faith is by its |>> >very statement opposed to the free use of the mind. To choose to |>> believe |>> >without sufficient evidence is often necessary even in the most mundane |>> of |>> >situtations, but a requirement to believe in unproven data explicitly |>> >denies the ability of a person to make choices based on reason for |>> >themselves. |> |>John, |> Any rational system must accept some things as a priori truths. These |>are then the fundamental axioms of the system, and by using reason, |>further statements are derived from this set of fundamental assumptions. |>Reason & observation have ample room to maneuver. |> Goedel again! As a Christian, and as a researcher, I believe it is necessary to seek the source of a fact. It is imperative to understand the foundation of reasoning underlying any claim. As you work your way back, you will eventually encounter something which is accepted, but not proven. Lonnie ---------------------------------------------------------------- The comments and spelling herein are mine and nobody else lays claim to them. ================================================================ Lonnie D. Harvel | ldh@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu School of Electrical Engineering | Georgia Institue of Technology | "quisque suis patimur manis" Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 | Virgil