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From: robinson@pravda.gatech.edu (Steve Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Ignorant assumption
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Date: 6 Sep 88 23:15:32 GMT
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In article <707@proxftl.UUCP> francis@proxftl.UUCP (Francis H. Yu) writes:
>Christian Bible is a piece of junk. Let's forget it.


Anything, if abused, taken out of context, etc, etc can be said to be
a piece of junk.  I doubt that you have read the Bible with any open
mindedness at all or you would at least have to give it credit for being
a dissemination of some excellent wisdom and advice.  Those that attempt
to make the Bible a yardstick of science or make it fit into a one or
another philosophical mold always come up short and either have to admit
they can't do it or make up something that sounds plausible to them to
cover the gap.  Just because you've seen these efforts fail does not mean
that the Bible fails in its purpose or is junk.  Do you even know what
the Bible claims as its purpose (not what others say it claims)?  Of course,
to find that out you will have to read it because if I tell you then I've
made a claim for it.  I have other strong personal opinions and beliefs
that I defer writing at this time but will share if contacted via email.

Regards,
Stephen

P.S. The relevance to ai here is that anything in ai, if abused, taken
out of context........