Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] creation myths

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> We read some Popper and Lakatos in grad school.  I've read a few other 
> things.  It is possible to come up with all sorts of difficult and 
> elaborate ideas and never really get a final answer.  There are probably 
> thousands of people publishing all the time on philosophy of science 
> issues.  What is stopping them from figuring it all out?  Well, I think 
> there is no perfect solution and science is a complicated process that 
> doesn't work by some perfect rules.  This allows philosophers to go on 
> and on making money (publishing and not perishing) forever.
>
>     "There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it."
>      --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.)

I don't believe that philosophers are motivated by making money.  They 
genuinely wish to resolve these issues.  Some people may feel like you 
do that there is no point because we will never find the answers, but 
there are other people like me who just cannot put these questions down.

When I came across the work of Popper my reaction wasn't "why did he 
waste his time with this kind of stuff" - rather it was "there is really 
someone else who thinks this is important" - I had been battling with 
these ideas and thoughts long before.


> > I have worked hard during my years of life to try to discern what 
> > reality is and what it is not.  In coming to believe in the Christian 
> > God, I have used all my senses, and all my intellect, to come to that 
> > conclusion.
>
> I believe you when you say that you are trying your best to get the 
> right answer.  I just don't think you've succeeded.

And I think that you have missed a lot.  As Hamlet put it:

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of 
in your philosophy.

Stephen

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