Re: MD On Faith

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 13:15:22 BST

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    JL:

    > >>Platt Holden wrote:
    > >>
    > >>>As a result of the scientific worldview, we have a bunch of fully grown
    > >>>adults (a bit of redundancy there) going around thinking, for example,
    > >>>that existence accidentally arose from a mathematical abstraction, life
    > >>>accidentally emerged from dirt, and consciousness accidentally
    > >>>materialized from a lump of meat. By comparison, resurrection appears
    > >>>infinitely reasonable. :-)

    jl replied:
    > >>jl:
    > >>It was from the reasonableness of resurrection that this whole caboodle
    > >>sprang. Oh dear. Maybe it met a few solid facts on the way.

    ph asked:
    > >What's your point?

    jl replied:
    > That we started from an aspect of utter faith, had to meet the behaviour of
    > the real world and find that that faith was to a large part unjustified.
    >
    > What's yours?

    That utter faith in science is unjustified.

    Platt

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