[lbo-talk] Neo-Lamarckianism???? Come on!

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think the question, Why does the Universe exist? (Why is there 
anything instead of nothing?) seems like a perfectly legitimate one to 
many people, even if they're being told sternly, "You can't ask that 
question! The universe just is!"

When Darwin asked himself why animal species existed as they did, his 
critics (often ecclesiastics, alas) told him sternly, "You can't ask 
that question!  Animals just are!"

But he kept right on.  --CGE

John Thornton wrote:
> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> [God] is the unknown answer to the question that the universe 
>> by its existence poses.  To say that God is the reason/cause that the 
>> universe exists is to say nothing about how the universe exists, which 
>> science investigates.
>>   
> 
> This is just meaningless. This is what passes for metaphysics and 
> sophisticated theology today. It can mean whatever the writer wishes it 
> to mean so it is irrefutable.
> The universe does not by its existence pose any questions. Questions are 
> the product of human inquiry, human minds. Questions do not exist 
> divorced from human minds.
> 
> John Thornton
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