Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> To: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020904154209.D13440-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20020904085636.2fcba73c.yid@softhome.net>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:12:53 -0700 > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > Joshua Lee wrote: > > > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > I don't personally know if there is a God or not. > > > > > > > > Barring evidence one way or the other, the choice between any > > > > two competing hypothesis must be made on the basis of which of > > > > the two is simpler. > > > > > > Terry, William of Occam was a theist. ;-) > > > > My uncle, who is names on the patent for microwave ovens, still > > to this day refuses to have one in his house... your point is? > > That it's fairly odd to quote a Franciscan Friar in favor of atheism, > albeit one that rejected the utility of Medieval scholastic proofs in > favor of revelation. It's because if you supply your own definition of "simple", Occam's razor can be used to prove anything. Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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