On 25 Jan 2013, at 05:08, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> evolution is complex and counter-intuitive.
The basic idea behind Evolution is not complex but it is counter-
intuitive because the human mind tends to endow intentionality to
nearly everything. That's why Darwin's ideas, although simpler than
Newton's, too longer to find.
> A universe from invisible, intangible laws that pop into
'existence' from nowhere seems likely?
Darwin can't explain why there is something rather than nothing and
neither can anybody else,
You are right. But comp explains that everything can be explained by
assuming a Turing universal reality (like arithmetic), and it explains
that we cannot get Turing universality from less. So it explains 99%
and it meta-explains completely why we can't explain the remaining 1%.
least of all the invisible man in the sky dingbats. Darwin can't
even explain how life first came to be on this planet, but once
bacteria came to be he can explain how humans evolved from them, and
that's a pretty good accomplishment. Science can explain a lot but
it hasn't explained everything, but religion hasn't explained
anything. Zip zero nada goose egg.
Without religion, science is pseudo-religion, or instrumentalism.
> I didn't say that God is not seen as grand, only that the concept
of God is not a grand concept. See (use-mention distinction).
I am quite familiar with the use-mention distinction and that ain't
it. If God is grand so is the concept.
How would you define "grand" for a concept?
Bruno
>> But you aren't exactly a expert on science, you admitted that to
you most scientific papers are just a huge amount of mumbo jumbo, so
your readers might be wise to take your views on the value of
science with a grain of salt.
> Argument from authority.
Despite its many faults the argument from authority beats the hell
out of argument from ignorance; and Craig let's face reality, you
know next to no science and the really depressing thing is that
you're not even trying to learn more.
John K Clark
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