From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:18:42 +1100   
   MarkE  wrote:   
      
   > On 20/01/2026 9:29 am, Jim Jackson wrote:   
   > > On 2025-12-17, MarkE  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> It is difficult to quantify, but even a casual observer of chimps and   
   > >> humans recognises the scale of the difference. Civilisation and   
   > >> spaceflight, for example.   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > I would just make the observation that there were people only about 150   
   > > years that said the similar things when comparing white people with   
   > > indigenous people.   
   > >   
   >   
   > It's a reminder of how wrong a widely held viewpoint can be. God and   
   > materialism are both widely held, mutually exclusive viewpoints.   
   >   
      
   Martin Harran, if I understand him correctly, doesn't see it this way.   
      
   Of course you'd have to clarify if your "materialism" is a   
   denigrated view of "scientific knowledge".   
      
   "God in the details?"   
      
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