"An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that
such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in
another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth
century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say
that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be
believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos
that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to
half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy,
not upon the clock or the century. If a man believes in unalterable
natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age. If a man
believes in a will behind law, he can believe in any miracle in any
age… It is simply a matter of a man's theory of things. Therefore
in dealing with any historical answer, the point is not whether it
was given in our time, but whether it was given in answer to our
question."
- chesterton, 1908
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/scott/fixing_a_hole.mp3
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to attest to the mystery [signal_through_noise remix]
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Type: discussion
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well – humph – that may have been true in 1908…
;-)
On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Curt Cloninger wrote:
> "An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that
> such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in
> another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century,
> but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a
> certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed
> on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was
> suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What
> a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or
> the century. If a man believes in unalterable natural law, he cannot
> believe in any miracle in any age. If a man believes in a will behind
> law, he can believe in any miracle in any age… It is simply a matter
> of a man's theory of things. Therefore in dealing with any historical
> answer, the point is not whether it was given in our time, but whether
> it was given in answer to our question."
> - chesterton, 1908
>
> http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/scott/fixing_a_hole.mp3
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