Greetings,
Cory. I think you contradict yourself in that you claim fossils (let us drop the word
record) exist
only as a figment of human imagination. If you disagree with that and want to keep it
as 'fossil
record' then I agree with your central point and we have no argument. Records are,
after all and in
a real sense, human constructs. Let me assume for the sake of argument that you do
mean, fossils are
a figment of the human imagination, then you can correct me if I am wrong and I will
retract. Let me
now make the assumption that fossils are the remains of, 'great beasts,' that,
'certainly,'
'wandered the earth way before humans made an appearance.'
Perhaps you could explain to me how creatures and the remains of creatures who
wandered the earth
before human beings existed, could exist only in the minds of human imaginations when
it has just
been clearly stated that they existed before human imaginations did. Fossils and
dinosaurs cannot
therefore be (just) psychological phenomena unless you can show me that the human mind
predates the
earliest fossil - or even the earth itself if that makes it easier - or even the
universe for that
matter.
It seems to me that metaphysics is concerned with just that type of problem and not
with the way in
which the human mind understands and divides reality. That is why SOM is not a
metaphysics but a
state of mind. The MoQ may well be the same.
Struan
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