Hi Quentin Anciaux Indeed, you can allow for that happening by simply saying so, and indeed in the real world what you say is true. That's essentially the engineering approach, which really isn't a scientific explanation, it's simply a fiat statement, such as "Birds can fly because gravity doesn't exist."
However, I think that science needs to know how that can possibly happen on a more fundamental level rather than by just saying it happens. Roger Clough, [email protected] 8/24/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Quentin Anciaux Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 16:04:51 Subject: Re: The hypocracy of materialism 2012/8/23 John Clark <[email protected]> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: ?> If you are a materialist, rejecting God is a perfectly sensible thing to do. Correct. > But materialism is bad philosophy,?ince it ignores the ontological firewall > between mind and matter.? I make changes in the matter of your brain and your mind changes. When your mind changes, such as when you figure? the coffee cup should be at your lips and not on the table the position of the matter in the coffee cup changes. That's sounds like a pretty BAD firewall, even Microsoft can make a better firewall than that! ? > Naturally,?t cannot solve the mind/body problem The hardest part of the mind/body problem is figuring out exactly what the mind/body problem is An explanation on how consciousness arises in the body. ? and what "solving" it is supposed to mean. Know how consciousness works and how it is related to the physical body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem Quentin ? > and has no clue what mind or God is, God is dog spelled backward.? > but demands proof of any religious statement or concept. Science has explained a lot of things, it's true it hasn't explained everything but it's explained a lot, so I don't understand why embracing religion is supposed to help when RELIGION CAN'T EXPLAIN ANYTHING.? Science can't explain everything so you want to switch to something that can't explain anything. It's nuts.? > Is that hypocracy or what ? Its not hypocrisy so it must be what. ?ohn K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
