[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Chris Gehlker]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> Actually, he named three and I dispute all of them on a particular
> ground. Lewis began to discuss one important aspect. What constituted
> agnosticism in the time of Leibnitz and Newton ? Its clear that it
> would have been another major philosophical leap (and a socially
> suicidal one) at that time to question the existence of god, or every
> last component of the christian bible story. On the other hand, there
> is, I am sure, a documentary record of Newton's struggles with the
> tenets of the church and indeed the creation story. The point is that
> as far as it occurred to them to go, they were indeed (to a degree)
> doubters and that was my original point on the topic.

What do you conceivably have to gain by  persistently miss- 
characterizing your former statements in this manner? They are open to  
inspection by any of us.
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