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Sapere aude

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"I think you should be more explicit here in step 2."

User:Awc/101 evidences for an old age of the earth and the universe (current count: 102!)



Fare thee well

This may be rather abrupt, but I suddenly realized I am bored to tears. I don't regret coming here. I've learned a lot about dating, geology, paleontology, and, not least, creationism. But I'm not getting anything back from this site anymore. The only active editors are me and Philip, mostly me, and I have the impression there are not very many people even reading this site.

To Philip's benefit, I must say he has never abused his position as site owner, but has always tried to justify his edits when challenged. He has, on occasion, admitted he was wrong. On the whole, however, he does not engage with the evidence. It's as though he has not only decided what his conclusion will be, but also that whatever evidence turns up must necessarily support that conclusion. I have long entertained the fantasy that he would question his beliefs a tiny bit, if only I amassed enough evidence and presented it clearly. It seems now that wasn't enough.

I plan to leave this site to its fate. I will probably continue to lurk, and may occasionally let myself be drawn into an exchange, but as for the science, which is always what has interested me most, there is already plenty there for anyone who really cares about it. I will still answer email and (probably, eventually) questions on my talk page.

Have fun, and if you can't have fun, at least learn something.

—Awc 09:32, 22 April 2012 (UTC)



Contents

To do

Things I'd like to do when I have time:

"Therefore, in an attempt to determine how open their forums are to outside criticism, I submitted an earlier version of this work to one of their own journals: the Creation Research Society Quarterly. Unfortunately, it was ultimately rejected by the physics section editor after a painful, and in my opinion, unfair review process."
  • Geocentricsm in the Bible and the Church

My subpages

Wiki editing like the pros: User:Awc/Idioms

Essays

Research

Isolated links

from In Memoriam A.H.H., by Lord Alfred Tennyson

You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes
Are tender over drowning flies,
You tell me, doubt is Devil-born.

I know not: one indeed I knew
In many a subtle question versed,
Who touch'd a jarring lyre at first,
But ever strove to make it true:

Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

He fought his doubts and gather'd strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length

To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,

But in the darkness and the cloud,
As over Sinaï's peaks of old,
While Israel made their gods of gold,
Altho' the trumpet blew so loud.

from Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung, by Albert Schweitzer

As of old Jacob wrestled with the angel, so modern theology wrestles with Jesus and will not let him go until he bless it -- that is, until he will consent to serve it and will suffer himself to be drawn by the modern spirit into the midst of our time and civilization. But when the day breaks, the wrestler must let him go. He will not cross the ford with us. Jesus of Nazareth will not suffer himself to be modernized.

Wie weiland Jakob mit dem Engel, so ringt die deutsche Theologie mit Jesus von Nazareth und will nicht von ihm lassen, bis er sie segne, bis er ihr dienstbar wird und sich vom germanische Geist bezwingen läßt, mit ihm mitten in unsere Kultur und in unsere Zeit hineinzutreten. Wenn aber der Morgen kommt, muß sie von ihm lassen. Er geht nicht mit über die Furt. Jesus von Nazareth läßt sich nicht modernisieren. Als historische Erscheinung bleibt er in seine Zeit gebannt. Er antwortet nicht auf die Frage: Sage doch, wie heißest du in unserer Zeit, in unserer Sprache? Aber er segnet die, welche mit ihm gerungen haben, da sie, auch ohne ihn mitnehmen zu können wie er ist, als die so Gott von Angesicht gesehen haben und deren Seele genesen ist, ihre Straße ziehen und mit den Mächten der Welt kämpfen.

For that reason, it is a good thing that the true historical Jesus should overthrow the modern Jesus, should rise up against the modern spirit and send upon earth not peace but a sword. He was not a teacher, not a casuist; he was an imperious ruler...He comes to us as one unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, he came to those men who knew him not. he speaks to us the same word: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which he has to fulfil for our time. He commands. And to those who obey him, whether they be wise or simple, he will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in his fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who he is.

from "A Vision of the Last Judgment", by William Blake

"What," it will be Question'd, "When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, `Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.'

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