Zachriel
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| Quote (cogzoid @ April 17 2008,11:37) | | Quote (Zachriel @ April 17 2008,11:34) | | Quote (sparc @ April 17 2008,11:15) | | Quote | 89 pages (single-space, 8½x11)
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most of it is copy/paste, isn't it? |
That sounds like a factually challenged, logically incoherent position to me. I find it interesting that in a context where science — rightly understood — is an empirically anchored, open-ended, provisional search for the truth about the world we experience and observe, there is now a resort to proposed undiscovered laws to explain what I wrote. There is a basic factor in the platonic chance-necessity-art trichotomy [though even Plato seemed to think it was immemorial in his day]. Namely, lawlike regularities are associated with outcomes of low contingency. And, it has to be a law of contingency that bears complex, functional information. There IS an observed regularity on that — intelligence. Onlookers, simply compare what I excerpted and discussed above. We can further take it as a given that if the argument in the main [that, contra Heller, design is evident in the cosmos and in cell based life and that it is not Manichean heresy to see that] were easily overturned, it would have been, so your resort to one red herring after another; leading out to one strawman after another (then duly pummelled – at least, not soaked in oil of ad hominem and ignited to cloud and poison the atmosphere through polarisation and confusion), is indicative of the balance of the case on the merits of fact and logic. And, not to his advantage. Having noted that general point, we need to address the usual cluster of tangential red herrings, yet again, so that certain points may be made clear. [...]
I hope that answered your question satisfactorily. |
One has to wonder how YOU read that stuff. |
As sparc asked a yes or no question, I tried to keep it short.
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