Feeling Reality (General)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 21:26 (4838 days ago) @ dhw

I'm not coming back. And this is the reason. dhw hasn't moved on from his initial position. He still states the same old same old:-"it continues to baffle me that anyone can truly grasp the immensity of all these different wonders, and yet still gloss them over with language and place his faith in chance to produce them."-"It is an argument from complexity AND incredulity, because neither you nor I can believe that such complexity could arise by chance."-To describe evolution by the processes of natural selection as being the same as the appearance of things "by chance" is just misrepresenting the case. Perhaps the phrase "by chance and law" or "by chance and inevitability" would express the case better. To set off an avalanche may only take a small amount of chance, the rest of the process follows by the law of gravity. -There was a Muslim teacher on "Beyond Belief" this week who said he taught about chance in mathematics, such as how to calculate the chance of a die showing a five, but he also taught that the result of the throw of the die was not a matter of chance at all, since everything was determined by God!

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GPJ