> [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.
[Platt] Unfortunately that doesn't answer Pirsig's questions. It's like saying anyone who studies theology knows God exists. [Krimel] Ahhha, but it does answer both why and how. It certainly does not do so by suggesting something as ludicrous as natural process reversing themselves. That's just simple minded. BTW, there are theologians who claim God does not exist. I believe you will find far more of them than you will find biologists claiming that life springs from a supernatural source. 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/
