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Friday, June 13, 2008
Rewriting Genesis . . . Accurately
The creation story retold in 10 minutes using modern science and plain words.
The funny thing about this is that when you think about it, we really are all composed of stardust. We are integrated parts of the Kosmos. It's awe inspiring and humbling.
The first five minutes are nice. We are indeed made of dust, stardust... and we are made of light...Children of light.
But any definition of what we are made of defines a point in time where we decide things "began". And any such point will always be absolutely arbitrary.
The guy is very confident in what he seems to know. But he is oblivious to the fact, science is in constant progress. Information is being multiplied with an increasing speed, and it has done so since the beginning of human investigations of the world. In about 100 years (or much less), someone may stumble upon this clip and laugh out loud, in a way we would find it ridiculous to claim now that the earth is flat.
He relies a lot on language and words, and it seems he often confuses between verbal concepts and "reality". For example when he questions why is it that "God" didn't write about the table of elements. As if the elements have an independent existence outside his mind. As if it was not a human mind that created those definitions, and now takes them for granted.
This guy probably means to say that the bible was written by men who had limited knowledge. But while he's at it, he exposes the limitations of his own mind.
He is stuck within the very same concepts he is trying to disprove.
Reminds me of a beautiful story in the Vilamakirti Sutra. A goddess was throwing flowers on monks, and they were trying to shake them off. But the flowers seemed to cling to them. While the realized monks, did nothing and the flowers simply fell and slipped off their robes.
The first five minutes are nice.
ReplyDeleteWe are indeed made of dust, stardust... and we are made of light...Children of light.
But any definition of what we are made of defines a point in time where we decide things "began".
And any such point will always be absolutely arbitrary.
The guy is very confident in what he seems to know. But he is oblivious to the fact, science is in constant progress.
Information is being multiplied with an increasing speed, and it has done so since the beginning of human investigations of the world.
In about 100 years (or much less), someone may stumble upon this clip and laugh out loud, in a way we would find it ridiculous to claim now that the earth is flat.
He relies a lot on language and words, and it seems he often confuses between verbal concepts and "reality".
For example when he questions why is it that "God" didn't write about the table of elements. As if the elements have an independent existence outside his mind. As if it was not a human mind that created those definitions, and now takes them for granted.
This guy probably means to say that the bible was written by men who had limited knowledge. But while he's at it, he exposes the limitations of his own mind.
He is stuck within the very same concepts he is trying to disprove.
Reminds me of a beautiful story in the Vilamakirti Sutra.
A goddess was throwing flowers on monks, and they were trying to shake them off. But the flowers seemed to cling to them. While the realized monks, did nothing and the flowers simply fell and slipped off their robes.
Aversion and clinging are just one and the same.
:-)