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Dark One <phoenixhasrisen@yahoo . com .au> typed:
> On May 4, 9:53 am, " ::: good news runner :::" <veral...@lycos . com >
> wrote:
>> Innews:sqadnXRWevlRDoHVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@earthlink . com ,
>> J A <a...@re . com > typed:
>>
>>
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>>> " ::: good news runner :::" <veral...@lycos . com > wrote in message
>>> news:683gm4F2rk22jU1@mid.individual . net ...
>>>> Innews:m-qdnbDe6ZCA8IHVnZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@earthlink . com ,
>>>> J A <a...@re . com > typed:
>>>>> If God and religion are so powerful, then why don't human advances
>>>>> in medicine, science and technology flow from God and religion?
>>
>>>>> Why do they flow from rational scientific efforts (whether or not
>>>>> the people involved are believers).
>>
>>>>> Why did computers and computer science evolve from the rational
>>>>> efforts of a great number of people making contributions of
>>>>> varying scale, instead of someone praying for an insight to
>>>>> develop such a type of machine and method, and then instantly
>>>>> achieving our current level of science and technology?
>>>>> No one has ever claimed a role for God in the evolution of
>>>>> computers and computer science. If God is so powerful, how could
>>>>> so powerful a thing as computer science occur without him?
>>
>>>> It might work like this... one prays, the others do what he prayed
>>>> for. ;-)
>>
>>> OOOOOhhhh, I see.
>>
>>> Somebody who knows nothing about computers, or genetics, or
>>> microbiology etc., etc., prays about something or other, and people
>>> somewhere on earth start working on something relevant.
>>
>>> Good thinking.
>>
>> Sure. That is how it often works. I pray for manna - and someone
>> gives it to me. Or it falls from the sky. :-) Not always, but often.
>> I pray...
>>
>> Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
>> obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
>> (James 4:2 KJV)
>
> Runner is such a cool name.
>
> 1Co 9:24 Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run,
> but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it.
>
> ;)
Hey, thanks for the hint! I promise I will try. :-)
> Dark
>
> And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the
> heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
> eye.
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery