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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]BBC1 is assuming that everyone spanks their children.   Must be something in the bible about that. [/quote]

Why, indeed there is:

Proverbs 23:12
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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jew here.

Law does not come from Proverbs.  [/quote]

BBC1

That is true, the Proverbs are not law, but they are wise sayings profitable for wisdom, and on how to train up your child to be righteous.

They were written by Solomon, one of the wisest people to have ever lived.   His God-given wisdom is worth heeding, certainly more than some psychologist like Timothy Leary who advised "turn on, tune in, drop out."

Everyone has an authority when it comes to living.  I choose the bible.  It has not steered me wrong yet. [/quote]

G-d created the world. [b]Learning from the world - by observation, including science - is therefore following G-d[/b]. Even the wisest man who lived thousands of years ago is not an authority over that.   To quote a gentile, Bernard of Chartres

"Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."[/quote]

I agree with you that much of what we learn is from building upon what others have discovered.  It is called scientific progress. Without vaccines and doctors learning to wash their hands after surgery before delivering babies, the death rate, and misery index, would be much higher today.  I have great reverence for the giants:  Pasteur, Newton, van Leeuwenhoek, and many others.

I have to disagree with you a little bit though. Observing and learning from the world is not following G-d (I respect your Jewish belief) because G-d does not learn anything. There is nothing for G-d to learn because he knows everything already. G-d cannot be taught, therefore G-d does not learn.  We learn, because we do not know, and we use our senses and mind to discover things about the world around us.  The more I learn, the more in awe I am of just how amazing the creation is:  our DNA, a sun that burns at a near-constant rate --too much we fry, too little we freeze.  The incredible complexity of male and female coming together to form new life.  Male and female could not have evolved separately, they would have had to have been created together within each other's fertile period within their lifespan.

And then there are people who think they are standing upon the shoulders of giants but in reality, are standing upon the shoulders of a dwarf staring stupidly up into the backside of a giant.  I consider Darwin to be one of these dwarfs, and those standing on his shoulders thinking we evolved instead of being created are not looking at what they think they are looking at.

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