I have been meaning to update my blog, but when I Googled myself, I found my history up to the moment on the Internet excruciatingly detailed, including lots of debates I had on the USENET newsgroup talk.origins from 1988 to 1996, and found these posts referenced and echoed in several places. This is alittle disquieting not because I would recant the substance of things that I said back then or that my basic views about those things have changed. It is just that I had moved on to other things and my approach to things, the tone I take, has changed.
Now, I have no doubt as to the correctness of organic evolution, or cosmic evolution for that matter and the antiquity of the earth and universe, nor have I revised my conclusion about the essential moral authoritarianism of the "people of the Book" religions that all trace to the prophet Abraham, remembering that the followers number close to 2 Billion people, but spiritual truths take many forms and no one faith or approach to wisdom has a monopoly on the truth. Also, many of those who fervantly believe in one of these three great traditions are people of toleration and good will who can see past rhetorical positions that conceal base motives. Nothing in human strieving to be better should disavow the evil that is always close at hand especially in the zeal to have authority and control.
I want to write in posts to come here soon about all the work I have been doing on Franz Joseph Haydn, whose Symphonies and Piano Sonatas have had ny attention for the past couple of months. When I have something intelligent to say here. I will pick up that topic.
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