[lbo-talk] The Argument from Design and Polytheism (Was: The "A"lives, apparently

[Shane Mage]

C.G.Estabrook wrote:
>
>...To assert the existence of God is not
>to state a fact within an established intellectual system but to claim the
>need for exploration; it is to claim that there is an unanswered question
>about the universe: viz., "Why is there anything instead of nothing?"...

But this question itself is profoundly dishonest, because the very
word "why" predicates an external teleology of the universe.

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62