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Originally Posted by Intothewind
A lc friend donated a box of audubon encyclopedias to little me who promptly read all of them. Among many other things it sowed seed to the idea that organisms cannot be classified as good or bad but simply are.
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An irony of church history is that we celebrate those who once had the temerity to question the status quo, and dogma of the age, but forbid anyone to question our own dogmas, today. Case in point: Martin Luther questioned the RCC & left to form his own sect, then Nee questioned Luther's Protestant heirs and did likewise, all of which was good and necessary for God to do anything (so the story goes). But how dare we, today, question Nee's ideas?!? Once Nee showed up - that's it. No more questioning.
But with science anyone can think, ask, experiment, at any time. Anything can be questioned, and challenged. One reason we have a common pool of collective knowledge is that it's been repeatedly probed and questioned, and it still stands. Its repeated tests establish its validity. Would that our religious ideas were allowed the same treatment! Instead it's "hands off". Don't think, don't question, just say, "amen". No wonder the young people leave in droves.