Killing the Watchmaker (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, May 28, 2011, 22:52 (4926 days ago) @ xeno6696

all,
> My cannon comes from Hume a 'la Pigliucci. And its not deceptive at all:
> 1.	 "The origin of the universe is a unique case, so analogy is pointless."
> Pause. Reread that line. The logic is thus: Anything you try to compare to the universe is comparing only a part of the whole to the whole itself. There is no other self-contained whole we can use to compare the universe to. The universe is not a watch, will never be a watch, and you're not comparing two like things. I extend this to life. Which brings me to the next argument.-I just realized that I didn't fully explore this rabbit hole. -If nothing within the universe is adequate to use to compare to the universe itself--this includes any man-made object we use. So therefore, the general argument that dhw made concerning the human eye is identical to this one; we have no instance of a man-made eye, so Hubble vs. Eyeball is another apple to orange comparison. -SO in conclusion: Both the universe--and life--are events unique enough in known history to have no legitimate analogy among any and all human endeavors.

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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.\"