From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 20:23:36 BST
Hi Ian,
On 24 Apr 2005 at 16:10, ian glendinning wrote:
I'm impressed that Mark finds the motivation to argue in such detail
...
I find myself stopping at the point "not up to snuff regarding our
current understanding of the physical universe" whenever anyone cites
an "old philosopher" verbatim as if to prove something.
msh says:
Old doesn't mean wrong or useless. The earth didn't stop orbiting the
sun just 'cause Copernicus died. And what's "old" anyway?
But I'll be the first to admit that my look back at the Dialogues was
a loving exercise in Philosophology. And you're right: it's amazing
that such a refresher course is even necessary; but as long as
crypto-creationists keep bringing up Paley to support their beliefs,
there is no better response than Hume's classic refutations.
ian:
PS Mark, whose is the animal / vegetable quote ? Paley ?
msh:
It's Hume, Dialogues Part VII, Paragraph 3. Though his point is well-
taken, I've always thought he was having us on a bit, as you Brits
like to say. You know, the world is a cabbage with nothing inside
it...
"The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable than it
does a watch or knitting-loom. Its cause, therefore, it is more
probable, resembles the cause of the former. The cause of the former
is generation or vegetation."
Best,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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