Why is a \"designer\" so compelling? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 04:21 (5609 days ago) @ David Turell

Dr. Turell, - It seems at large, we really have little to quibble about. It is impossible to argue with any number of years of personal experience. I am happy though, that I've found netizens that don't feel that their experience is paramount in the debate. - I do appreciate the time you've invested and wonder how you did it working as a medical doctor! However there is a great deal I don't understand in terms of willingly taking unfalsifiable positions outside of theoretical discourse. I do not see how they can be any superior in regards to the forms of investigation open to us. - I do hate that you've called my position reductionist. I admit it is a very conservative approach but I'm satisfied to have "no answer" whilst the various details wheedle themselves out. I've met people who were unsatisfied with not having an answer and as such, accept one that is conveniently unassailable. (There is no arguing with faith.) This is my appraisal of Adler's summarized view on god. - I admit that out of this raw principle I have an aversion to faith of all forms. That is of course, why mathematics is so seductive. It is interesting that you mention Pascal on a couple of occasions. He is one of the theists I admire most, for he was a tortured soul--along with Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. I have more in common with those three thinkers than anyone else.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"