... Nagel essay. ... No imaginative leap needed. I simply took Nagel at his word: "My own situation is that of an atheist who, in spite of being an avid ...
I don't think there was a choice. Medicine was inept at5 dealing with the event. The event itself was not a miracle. The miracle is instead life itself. ... ...
... Scientists are neither good nor bad based on what kind of scientist they are. The fact of the matter is there seems to be no such thing as an "ID...
... And if what exists is a liberal social and political framework then today's conservative wants to keep liberalism. So by your definition, today's...
... In sharp contrast to the legacy left to him by the tireless work of William Wilberforce, who made the abolition of slavery in the Empire his Christian...
PHIL: OK, so far no one has shown that mutations can be predicted ahead of time or that there is prior intent involved. Clare Wilson Parr: One word:...
... I wasn't using sliding criterion of "conservatism". I understand "conservative" to mean, "to want to keep what exists". "Liberal" means, to want to give a...
... Last things first, since gluadys' "final note" puts her preceding comments re: Dr. Nagel's essay in sharp perspective. Because Nagel writes, for instance,...
... I think then that we are in basic agreement here. Paley was not wrong in his understanding that we can go from Nature through to Nature's God, but he was...
... What is wonderful and mysteriously creative is the web of relations that exists in biomes. The fact that immediate relations are often antagonistic doesn't...
It does appear that something out of the natural occurred. I observe two different kinds of miracles in the Bible. One kind of miracle is adaptations of the...
... And you are forgetting that Darwin was relying on Pallas. I don't know Pallas' arguments for considering natural selection untenable as an explanation of...
On December 29, 2009, Phil Schuster wrote re: Lewontin on materialism: PHIL: OK, so far no one has shown that mutations can be predicted ahead of time or that...
... Where is the evidence of the miracle? That she appeared healthy and then all of a sudden, died? That when people, like my wifes father, get the A-OK from...
... Really. Then please post the dictionary references that verify your claim. ... Which confuses *cause* and "the regularities of the natural order."...
... When you say "exposed long enough to similar ecological factors" you must be referring to natural selection as opposed to sexual selection the way Darwin...
... But what has been presented that is imaginary? Is it the opercular chamber of Acanthostega? Is it the limb girdles of Ichthyostega and Hynerpeton? Is it...
TURANDOT: In stark contrast to Darwin's theory of evolution, Copernicus's heliocentric theory doesn't prescribe the material origin of the sun and the earth;...
Laurie quotes: By comparing the chart on page 20 pertaining to carbon dioxide and temperature data to the one on page 65 pertaining to astronomical rhythms...
... So two people with a history of distorting evidence and no background in the relevant science think they have found a discrepancy in two charts intended...
... It is entirely relevant unless you are inventing your own dictionary. If epilepsy is produced by the natural order within the natural order through...
... From: gluadys To: OriginsTalk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 2:50 AM Subject: [OriginsTalk] Re: Creation versus Global Warming LA> It...
Victor writes: Perhaps Miranda has not always been far from the Sun. Ptolemy, 1850 years ago, measured larger angular diameters for the planets. Pasha...
Jim writes: By the way, are you aware that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are a trailing, not a leading, indicator of temperature change? Pasha...
... Whether or not the cause of epilepsy is known is utterly irrelevant to whether or not epilepsy is a "rupture of "the regularities of nature" / "natural...
Voyager 2 passed close to Uranus' moon Miranda in January 1986. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Miranda.jpg Notice the two race tacks, one deeply grooved...
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