Victor, Thank you for your remarks. I do not, however, see how you can justify your position that time is somehow not time, and that the cycles of the earth...
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Victor McAllister
ptolemy1022
Feb 8, 2013 3:03 pm
... Solomon says time (olam - eon time) is in our minds. God put time in our minds (same as hearts) so that we cannot understand earth history (Eccelesistes...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 8, 2013 7:24 pm
Pope John Paul II wrote to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the subject of cosmology and how to view Genesis: "Cosmogony and cosmology have always aroused...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 9, 2013 3:13 pm
The ancient mind had its imagery, ways of understanding earth, cosmos, nature. Nor did the ancient mind understand God as revealed in Jesus Christ. It was...
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Victor McAllister
ptolemy1022
Feb 9, 2013 7:20 pm
In Genesis, each creation day ends with the phrase: becoming evening and becoming morning. U-iei (he is becoming) suggests a process of changing from evening...
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James Given
jagiven1370
Feb 11, 2013 3:00 pm
Dear James, Â I believe I agree with all you write. But just to clarify a point: Â If we allow with Augustine that time and the world are created together,...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 11, 2013 4:00 pm
Re: bringing Revelation to bear upon natural order of things It's a great good to bring God's Word to bear upon the truth of our existence and upon the fact of...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 11, 2013 4:48 pm
NASA launched Pioneer 10 in the spring of 1972 and Pioneer 11 one year later. Flying by Jupiter, Saturn in the mid 70s, after passing the threshold of the...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 13, 2013 3:21 pm
The NASA-backed paper that came out in 2002 started the wild speculation as to the cause behind the Pioneer anomaly. (Pioneer 11 had long stopped sending...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 13, 2013 5:06 pm
Dear Jim, We are talking about the creation of the material cosmos! This is what Genesis 1 refers to, however, not in terms of physical science. But it ...
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Victor McAllister
ptolemy1022
Feb 13, 2013 5:10 pm
... * Those who advocate interpreting the creation allegorically are concerned with amalgamating the Bible and philosophy, e.g. Origen, Augustine and Thomas.*...
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Victor McAllister
ptolemy1022
Feb 13, 2013 5:21 pm
... Does essence exist? Does time exist? Does mass exist? Does energy exist? Does gravity exist? Does matter exist? In the above list, the only thing we can be...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 16, 2013 3:10 am
Of course time exists. Its real. Its about a present moment, or a set moment, or a duration of existence. This word is found many times in the Old and New...
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Mike Roach
r100rs77
Feb 16, 2013 4:37 am
Dear James, The images did not show up for me. I am using M S Outlook on Windows XP. Regards, Mike From: thomism@yahoogroups.com...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 16, 2013 4:39 am
2 Peter 3 is about the parousia and about the judgment of God against evildoers, it's not about philosophy. St Peter writes: "... we did not follow cleverly...
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James Miguez
jamesmiguez
Feb 16, 2013 5:29 am
Mike, Hello! I'm sorry but the yahoo did not carry it. I'll attach the images to this post. Hopefully they will show up! If you or anyone else is...
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James
jagiven1370
Feb 16, 2013 7:24 pm
Dear James, I wrote my earlier post on "Creatio ex Nihilo" to make several closely related points: 1. The Bible is not a science book or physics book, it is...
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James
jagiven1370
Feb 16, 2013 8:12 pm
Scholastic philosophy eg that of Aquinas does a good job in answering these questions. You write: What distinguishes metaphysical, symbolical versions of...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 21, 2013 3:23 am
Jim, Thank you for your post. No one said that creation deals with physical change or events in so far as they are physical. The Big Bang and Creation are...
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Victor McAllister
ptolemy1022
Feb 21, 2013 1:51 pm
Thomas Kuhn was a physicist who became a historian of scientific upheavals. *He defined normal science as what scientists do within the domain of their ...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 21, 2013 3:38 pm
Victor, A principle is not a postulate. Kuhn is a historian of science who starts with an historical argument, not a philosophical one. That is his paradigm,...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 21, 2013 4:02 pm
Dear Everyone, Esse, the latin verb "to be" is not a noun. This is the language of thomism, and it is related to existence, so naturally as a means of ...
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CHUA Soo Meng Jude (P...
judechua
Feb 21, 2013 4:26 pm
would you say it is grasped abductively? jude ________________________________________ From: thomism@yahoogroups.com [thomism@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
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Mike Roach
r100rs77
Feb 21, 2013 5:07 pm
Victor, I don't want to be seen as piling on, but I do want to register my general agreement with James' criticism. I suggest a study of some of the history ...
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James Miguez
jamesmiguez
Feb 22, 2013 1:49 pm
You may say so if you wish. To delineate against abstraction, induction, deduction, reduction, etc. But existence, or esse, the act of existing, is grasped...
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Ryan Haecker
ryan_haecker
Feb 25, 2013 1:31 pm
James, Could you elaborate on how the act of grasping existence is, perhaps abductive, but not abstracted, induced, deduced, or reduced? I understand that St....
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CHUA Soo Meng Jude (P...
judechua
Feb 26, 2013 6:30 am
Hi Ryan and James That;s a very good question. I understand, having begun reading up on abduction recently cf Peirce and semiotics, etc, that this term...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 26, 2013 5:18 pm
Ryan, The post on esse was to clarify the translation of esse to English. I was not offering abduction as a solution, but simply allowed Jude to stipulate the...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 26, 2013 5:53 pm
Jude, Thank you for the post. I haven't given the term abduction much thought, though I've look a Pierce a little, and clearly William James cannibalized his...
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James
jamesmiguez
Feb 26, 2013 6:26 pm
Joseph Owens in The Interpretation of Existence approaches the fact of existence, proceeding from common viewpoints to discover its meaning as more than fact....
