On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:55 AM, shag wrote:
> ...The orderliness of nature is an assumption embraced by the
> Enlightenment, upheld by Deists...
I disagree. The orderliness of nature is a reality proven by Pythagoras when he discovered that the musical scale (a fact of nature) is structured according to simple numerical ratios.
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)