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

[Shane Mage]

"Eubulides" 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.

Well then, what usage of the adjective "why" do you have in
mind that would justify this assertion?

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62