> > [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.
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