12-27-2005, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2005, 10:42 PM by GenericKen.)
Jester,Dec 27 2005, 08:37 PM Wrote:I just love the idea that the data *can* be explained by design.
Of course it can. It always can. Postulate an undefined entity interfering in the universe, and you can justify *any* result.
Quantum Mechanics seems confusing? God is moving particles around.
Universe isn't expanding like it's supposed to? Must be Thor.
The Duck-Billed Platypus doesn't make any sense? Clearly, aliens, hooped up on alien funny juice, decided to intervene as part of an elaborate intergalactic bet. (And they, in turn, were created by Ahkenaten.)
It's exactly as helpful an explanation as "who knows," but without the humility.
-Jester
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To be fair, the same tautology lies in the idea that the causation of everything is a matter of chance and time. "Chance" itself is just as ill-defined, if not moreso, than the providence of God.
That Terry Gilliam quote irks me a bit. Has anybody else noticed how Science and Literature have seemed to switch stances, in that now authorship is the most important part of any scientific idea and that the writer has been divorced from his work? If science is still rooted in logic, whatever happened to divorcing the argument from the arguer?
Great truths are worth repeating:
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24