Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Understanding the Bible Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 02:35:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cole@maverick.uswest.com (Cole Keirsey) writes: + "modern theory of the development of the concept of the Diety"... +To my way of thinking, that author might as well have said "Even though +modern astronomers talk about a round earth and relativistic space, they +can't escape the time-honored acedemic tradition of a flat earth at the +center of the universe." There are a number of mind sets which we still retain although the scientific evidence for a completely different view is well known. The most obvious example is which do you say "Sun's Up" or "the earth has turned on it's axis to the point that the sun now appears on the eastern horizon relative to my local coordinate system". The same seems to be popular in non-religious investigations of the development of religions (if that's not an oxymoron at all). Such researchers offer a explanation of why(or how) people develop the diety concept and of course they are not eoeo-centric'. Which is probably you real criticism. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu