ldh@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu (Lonnie D Harvel) (11/29/90)
A recieved the following correction by mail and thought that it was important enough to forward to soc.religion.chrisitian. The mistake I made is one which we should all be on the guard for. Begin message... >Excerpts from netnews.soc.religion.christian: 27-Nov-90 Re: Did Erasmus live in vain? Lonnie D Harvel@bessel.e (1707) > > >Goedel again! As a Christian, and as a researcher, I believe it > >is necessary to seek the source of a fact. It is imperative to > >understand the foundation of reasoning underlying any claim. As > >you work your way back, you will eventually encounter something > >which is accepted, but not proven. > > >Lonnie > Goedel? Nah, just some basic logic. In my opinion, people wave Goedel's Incompleteness Proof around too much. I don't consider good/evil questions to be matters of truth/falsehood anyway. It's just a matter of whether you are on God's side, or on the side of Brand X. However, whether Church Z is actually on God's side is a matter open to reason and observation. Stephen ps. Minor nit - you should distinguish between a "fact" and a "truth". Facts are statements which are rooted in observation and therefore bound to circumstances, while "truth" is something which is universal. End message... Thank you Stephen, and I hope you do not mind me posting this. Lonnie ---------------------------------------------------------------- The comments and spelling herein are mine and nobody else lays claim to them. ================================================================ Lonnie D. Harvel | ldh@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu School of Electrical Engineering | Georgia Institue of Technology | "quisque suis patimur manis" Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 | Virgil