Posted: Aug 31, 2010 10:41 am
Darwinsbulldog wrote:Fundi logic is a bit like some pure math really....internally consistent.
Whoa - I have to stick up for pure maths here. It may be stuck in its ivory tower having nothing to do with the world outside, but it doesn't make any claims about the world outside. No mathematical theorem is contradicted by the real world.
I know what you mean about purely internal discussion though. I was following a discussion about using the Bible to calculate the year of creation. The OP specifically wanted to exclude any discussion of science vs creation and a very detailed discussion of Genesis ensued. I suppose you could come to the conclusion that biblically speaking creation was in 4004 BC or whatever and see the merits and flaws in the arguments for and against. It's just that the whole discussion has nothing to do with reality whatsoever.
It's a bit like debating how many children Lady Macbeth had.
ETA: It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. George Orwell - 1984