Natural Teleology: More Thomas Nagel (The limitations of science)

by dhw, Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 11:58 (4300 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: And as you have so often agreed in the past, it requires faith to believe in such a "mind". I have always accepted your argument against chance, which I regard as being just as unlikely as an eternal, organized, self-aware clump of energy that does not experience entropy. Your faith in God arises from the unlikelihood of chance. The atheist's faith in chance arises from the unlikelihood of God. Tweedledum and Tweedledee.-DAVID: Either t-dum or t-dee is correct. On that we do agree. I've chosen my firm ground, you are still straddling on top of your fence. And there we stay. Ah, well, I tried.-Or to put it another way:-It's Tweedledum or Tweedledee,
On that the two of us agree.
You've gone for God. Your choice makes sense,
As does my straddling the fence.
You will not budge ... that's plain to see.
I've tried, but you're as stuck as me.