> [Platt] > Perhaps your non believers would like to address the question Pirsig posed > in Lila: > > "Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, > hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize > themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a > chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of > nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen > and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. > It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use > and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into > a > chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of > predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the > sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic > compounds. That's a scientific fact. > > "The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth > causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's > energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something > else. > What is it?" (Lila, 11) > > [Krimel] > You really are shameless to keep trotting out this transparently bogus > quote. It should be an embarrassment to Pirsig to have it repeated. I > seriously can't imagine anyone who studies biology or basic physics > failing > to understand that life on earth is a direct result of the constant > influx > of solar radiation on our planet's surface.
Unfortunately that doesn't answer Pirsig's questions. It's like saying anyone who studies theology knows God exists. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
