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

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Dec 17 22:05:06 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>

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.

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The question is not dishonest and the word "why" used in the sentence above doesn't necessarily predicate an external teleology.



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