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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion vs science: two questions, concluded
- Keywords: anthropics, faith, humor
- Message-ID: <1414@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 00:22:03 GMT
- References: <Bz4n8I.CAp@world.std.com>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <Bz4n8I.CAp@world.std.com> jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
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- >Whether the universe had an intelligent creator is just as much a
- >scientific question as whether a plate of cookies had an intelligent
- >creator.
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- It might be, if you explain what a creator is. In fact with many
- definitions of creation, these questions have the _same_ answer. The
- point is that many people take the view that the baker is not creating
- the cookies any more than the potter creates the plate, but that both
- of these people are _transforming_ matter which previously exists.
-
- Adler's book _Aristotle for everybody_ goes over this in detail.
-
- > The difference, aside from scale, is that the answer is
- >probably no.
-
- Umm, what is the basis for this probability?
-
- > Is there a newsgroup on anthropics, tho?
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- sci.philosophy.meta
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-