@Ken: A recent post stated: ““Ken argues consistently against any …

Comment on Dr. John Sanford Lectures on Inevitable Genomic Deterioration by Wesley Kime.

@Ken:
A recent post stated: ““Ken argues consistently against any point made or raised by Sean”

On the two occasions, of, first, your being called out again for scuffing every point Dr. Pitman makes, and, second, your again exercising your outreach ministry to invite me into our poet’s corner, it is my privilege, on behalf of myself, not the management, probably only by indulgence of the management, to present to you this teak-backed brass plaque of appreciation. The award reads as follows:

“In recognition of his faithfulness (even a touch of subliminal faith), in all things, to wit, 1) his wit. 2) His attendance record here, so faithful as to qualify as loyalty. Having seen him around for over two years, the presenter has grown accustomed to his face, seeking it out first among the postings as for truffles in pasta. 3) His reassuringly dependable Pavlovian Platonic agnosticism doing just what the Agnostic Great Commission prescribes, to behave agnostically, scattering question marks about like a nymph scattering petals in May. So what else is new? Does not a pip squeak? Does not an Erv taylor? (Hi, Erv.) 4) His exemplary, unruffled friendliness, courtliness, and politeness (only rarely lapsing, as in painting Hiram Edson ‘disgruntled’), being, as determined by peer review and statistical analysis and Standard Deviation, more often sympathetic with, and respectful of, Dr. Pitman’s purpose, goals, mode, thoroughness and invincibility of evidence, scientific methodology, essay style (its clarity and certainty), patience and persistence, personality and persona, than is the whole spectrum of our own Christian [sic] Agnostic Postadventists.” He can’t be all bad.

Now, as requested, today’s bit of sacerdotal Ogden Nashry:

Like a medicine a mirthful heart and laugh
Doeth good, even doeth did in Gilgameshrymaff.
That medicinal effect our prescribing God saw,
Was a smile, flashing teeth, but not a guffaw.

Wesley Kime Also Commented

Dr. John Sanford Lectures on Inevitable Genomic Deterioration
Re. Sean’s excellent suggestion to Ken that he study Daniel 9:24 and the “70 week” prophecy:

May I insert, to preempt what our friend Ken, so well trained in agnostic devices, may already be poised to point out, or will surely confront, that indeed the “70 weeks” Prophecy of Daniel is so convincing that the aporetically bent just cannot believe it – it’s just too incredibly, invincibly accurate. Impossible. So it has been determined and declared long ago, and “most scholars agree,” that Daniel, known to have lived circa 600 BC, never wrote it at all. Some smirking proprietary revisionist inserted it in Maccabean times. Besides, there have been many squigglings of that prophecy, including the inevitable now classic, “it must be understood as a cultural allegorical message irrelevant to modernity.” The Wikis are awash with this kind of thing. But might it be that the explainings-away of Daniel are more contrived than his prophesies? Give your maieutics another run, friend Ken; put Daniel in the context of the cosmos and creation, cosmic dust and, yes, our Krebs Cycle, not just oh-it-can’t-be hermeneutics or “suitable” science.


Dr. John Sanford Lectures on Inevitable Genomic Deterioration
@pauluc: No offence intended, I apologize, pardon me, but too rarely are we privileged to enjoy such whimsical if not exactly forthright polemic parrhesia as yours. I apologize, pardon me, but it deserves a less perfunctory, and more pejorative, riposte, to begin to be commensurate, than I am giving it, pardon me, forgive me. Pardon me, no offense, but I want to leave plenty of space, and breath, for the line-by-line, more learned, and less rhetorical responses I trust will come.


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I accept that I must accept it, wholly, actively, even with agony, with my whole being.