religious "logic"

[kurt youngmann]

An area clergy person submits the following letter to the editor in
today's paper. Does anyone else see some errors in logic and science?
One wonders just who the ignorant and foolish may be...

Kurt Youngmann

November 2, 2009

Rooster crowing

This is in response to "'Good without God' billboard up near
Loop" (News, Oct. 22), about the group Chicago Coalition for Reason's
sign. This reminds me of a story about a rooster. The rooster boasts
to the other animals that he causes the sun to rise by his crowing. So
every morning as the sun rises, he crows and crows, proudly and
arrogantly. Little did he know that the other animals were laughing at
him because of his ignorance and foolishness. In truth the rooster
does not cause the sun to rise by his crowing; rather, it is the
rising sun that prompts his heart to crow at sunrise.

Millions and millions of God-believing people, with imperfections,
know that it is God who creates human beings to be good and empowers
them to do good. Of course, there are people like the Chicago
Coalition for Reason who choose to think like the rooster.

-- Rev. ***, pastor of St. *** Parish, ***

Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune

[Karen Daskawicz]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, kurt youngmann <tgo...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Rooster crowing
>
> This is in response to "'Good without God' billboard up near Loop" (News,
> Oct. 22), about the group Chicago Coalition for Reason's sign. This reminds
> me of a story about a rooster. The rooster boasts to the other animals that
> he causes the sun to rise by his crowing. So every morning as the sun rises,
> he crows and crows, proudly and arrogantly. Little did he know that the
> other animals were laughing at him because of his ignorance and foolishness.
> In truth the rooster does not cause the sun to rise by his crowing; rather,
> it is the rising sun that prompts his heart to crow at sunrise.
>
> Millions and millions of God-believing people, with imperfections, know
> that it is God who creates human beings to be good and empowers them to do
> good. Of course, there are people like the Chicago Coalition for Reason who
> choose to think like the rooster.
>
>

Oh dear!

Would early and repetitive instruction in critical thinking help overcome
this sort of wrong thinking / analysis? Or, is this yet another example of
the rationalization that is especially prevalent in religious thinking but
which (might I remind us) *all* humans are vulnerable to?

-Karen Daskawicz

[Garrison Hilliard]

Or at least good chixken soup! ;-)

[josephus]

Karen Daskawicz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Gerry Harris<ger...@mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> Not that this proves or disproves much of anything, but you might recall the
>> coyote in the sub shop in Chicago:
>>
> I do recall it. And I think the reason it made news was precisely
> because it was so unusual.
>
> Karen
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i recall seeing a news release about coyote DNA it share a lot with
dogs and has been changing recently. I suspect it means dogs will
become more coyote like.
josephus