Hi John Clark
Theology is based on faith and moral practice.
In other words, meaning and value,
neither of which you will find in facts.
Roger Clough, [email protected]
9/13/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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From: John Clark
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Time: 2012-09-12, 12:47:12
Subject: Re: The poverty of computers
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012? Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>>? makes a bridge between two fields,
>>? What two fields??
>? The study of the notion of truth, (epistemology, philosophy, metaphysics, it
>is interdisciplinary) and theology.
Translation from the original bafflegab: The truth is important.
And by the way, there is no field of theology, it has nothing intelligent to
say because it has not discovered any facts.?
> Plato's questions are at the origin of science.
But Plato lived 2500 years ago and we are no longer at the origin of science,
it's time to move on.
> It is no use to say more if you don't have read it, and don't want to get
> informed.
?
? didn't say I haven't read Plato, I said I knew more philosophy than he did, a
lot more.
?
> Making you defending Aristotle theology, confusing it with the physical
> science.
There is no doubt that somebody around here is confused because I have said
more than once that Aristotle was the worst physicist who ever lived. Even his
reputation as a great logician is overstated, he used some very intricate pure
logic and concluded with certainty that women MUST have fewer teeth than men.
They don't. Aristotle had a wife, he could have counted her teeth at any time
but never bothered to because like most philosophers he already knew the truth,
or thought he did.
> I have never seen a paper in physics assuming a primitive physical reality,
> still less a paper showing how to test such idea.
I have no idea what you mean but I will say this, if you have never seen a
physics paper even attempt to do something then its probably not very important
because they've attempted some pretty wacky things.?
?ohn K Clark
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