From: cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb)
Subject: Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
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In <kmr4.1576.734879396@po.CWRU.edu> kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes:

>In article <1qj9gq$mg7@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank 
O'Dwyer) writes:

>>Is good logic *better* than bad?  Is good science better than bad?  

> By definition.


> great - good - okay - bad - horrible

>    << better
>       worse >>


> Good is defined as being better than bad.

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How do we come up with this setup?  Is this subjective, if enough people agreed
we could switch the order?  Isn't this defining one unknown thing by another? 
That is, good is that which is better than bad, and bad is that which is worse
than good?  Circular?

MAC
>   Only when the Sun starts to orbit the Earth will I accept the Bible. 
>        

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