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Quote (Glen Davidson @ Sep. 29 2016,16:02) | Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 29 2016,14:05) | Quote | 7 Barry ArringtonSeptember 29, 2016 at 12:42 pm Quote | When we are asked why eggs turn to birds or fruits fall in autumn, we must answer exactly as the fairy godmother would answer if Cinderella asked her why mice turned to horses or her clothes fell from her at twelve o’clock. We must answer that it is MAGIC. It is not a ‘law,’ for we do not understand its general formula. It is not a necessity, for though we can count on it happening practically, we have no right to say that it must always happen. It is no argument for unalterable law (as Huxley fancied) that we count on the ordinary course of things. We do not count on it; we bet on it. We risk the remote possibility of a miracle as we do that of a poisoned pancake or a world-destroying comet. We leave it out of account, not because it is a miracle, and therefore an impossibility, but because it is a miracle, and therefore an exception. All the terms used in the science books, ‘law,’ ‘necessity,’ ‘order,’ ‘tendency,’ and so on, are really unintellectual, because they assume an inner synthesis, which we do not possess. The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy books, ‘charm,’ ‘spell,’ ‘enchantment.’ They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. A tree grows fruit because it is a MAGIC tree. Water runs downhill because it is bewitched.
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G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The point Chesterton makes is both obvious and irrefutable. Yet it somehow escapes our materialist friends. |
Barry's probly proud of this shit. |
And we've wasted all of this time and resources actually looking into why eggs hatch into birds or fruits fall in autumn, only to learn nothing.
Had we researched the production of the proper magic wands (or ID gee-whiz numbers) we'd be far ahead of where we are now.
Glen Davidson |
Yup. With egg on our faces and cursing fig trees for not bearing out of season.
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