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Godfrey On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Gonz wrote: > Faith and knowledge are not orthogonal to each other, which is what > the > original statement implied. > > I may know how the snowflake was created in physical terms, but may > also > have faith in a Creator who enabled the physical laws to create > such beauty. > > You can never prove that an arrowhead was created by a human, > unless you > were there to witness it or there is a chain of trust to someone who > witnessed it (this also requires faith). Of course we believe that it > is the case, because its unlikely to have taken on that shape on its > own. However improbable, its still possible that the stone just > looked > like that. > > Life looks quite improbable according to the laws of entropy, but its > here. We could choose to believe that a Creator had something to do > with it, or we could also choose to believe that self replicating > molecular structures just appeared from the random chaos of the > primordial soup. Both require some form of faith. > > IMO there is no such thing as pure knowledge. After all what do we > really "know"? So we're all ignorant. > > rg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
