From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 12:35:41 BST
Hi Mark,
I'm aware I've got some posts hanging and needing an answer at the moment,
but just wanted to comment on your post in this thread. Ironically enough, I
spent yesterday morning giving a lecture to 50 or so of my congregation
about evolution and why the watchmaker argument etc was a big red herring.
In other words, I agree with everything you said (especially from Hume), and
I think ID fails, but that's because it seems to me both sides of the
argument share presuppositions (about what sort of thing God is) which I
don't share. A belief in a creator has much more to do with attitudes to
life and choices than the assertion of a position within a scientific
conversation.
In Remarks on Colour, §317, Wittgenstein writes: "When someone who believes
in God looks around him and asks `Where did everything that I see come
from?' `Where did everything come from?', he is not asking for a (causal)
explanation; and the point of his question is that it is the expression of
such a request. Thus, he is expressing an attitude towards all
explanations. -But how is this shown in his life? It is the attitude that
takes a particular matter seriously, but then at a particular point doesn't
take it seriously after all, and declares that something else is even more
serious. Someone may for instance say it's a very grave matter that such and
such a man should have died before he could complete a certain piece of
work; and yet, in another sense, this is not what matters. At this point one
uses the words `in a deeper sense.'"
I may say something about this when I get a chance to respond to your other
posts.
Cheers
Sam
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