Jim Henderson wrote:
> an instinctive knowledge.

What is the benefit of tacking the word on the end of that? Why is it 
"instinctive knowledge" and not just "instinct"?

>> Does yanking your hand out of the
>> fire have anything to do with knowing it's hot?
> 
> It certainly has something to do with knowing "I'm in pain" and how to 
> make he pain go away.  Pain avoidance is IMHO a form of instinctive 
> knowledge.

OK, so what everyone else calls "instinct" (or "reflex"), you call "knowledge".

> Some people come to that conclusion without formal training. 

Sure. But I specifically said "Christians" rather than something else to 
imply a substantive agreement with parts of the bible as written. I don't 
think it's unusual to have a tendency towards religion. Even atheists have 
days when they're convinced God hates them. ;-)

And I don't think you instinctively knew (or know) how the universe works. I 
think you learned it and didn't pay attention to having learned it, so 
you've forgotten you learned it.  Not that we'll ever know for sure.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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