JohnW
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Quote (olegt @ Jan. 05 2013,10:05) | Quote (JohnW @ Jan. 04 2013,17:48) | Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Jan. 04 2013,14:44) | VJ asks: "How many things can dance on the head of a thing?"
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Fascinating... so Poof! has been established to everyone's satisfaction, and UD is now discussing which kind of Poof! it was.
All science so far. |
A preview of coming attractions: Quote | According to Professor Feser, creation is entirely a top-down process. God can make a man from dust simply by saying, “Dust, become a man.” In so doing, He does not – indeed, could not – achieve His result by tinkering with the dust particles.
I maintain, on the contrary, that in the process of making a man from dust, God would have to rearrange the dust particles from the bottom up, while simultaneously bestowing the substantial form of a man on the underlying (prime) matter. Simply telling dust to become a man fails to specify what kind of man God wants – e.g. how tall he should be, what blood type he should have, what kind of face he should have, and so on. It also fails to specify the micro-level properties of the man in question – e.g. how many cells his body should have, and exactly what sequence of bases he should have in his DNA.
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Torley has way too much time on his hands. |
I didn't come from no stinkin' bottom!
-------------- Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... Â The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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