As far as the system is concerned, it's exactly the same thing. "This is the point beyond which we cannot go."
It wouldn't be hard to argue that the statement "it's this way just because it's this way" is less rational than "it's this way because of an unknowable cause." In the first instance, you have this whole uncaused universe running around structured in the way it is for no particular reason. Which is kind of weird.
--- On Mon, 5/11/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Y'all Yeti for This (was: How many earths)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:46 PM
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Doug
> Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That's a more honest answer than "God," isn't it?
> >
> Not if you think God exists!
> If you accept that there's an omnipotent intelligence whose
> will determines
> everything, "God did it" is always trivially the case, and
> so asserting it
> is just a way of saying "I dunno, it just is." Especially
> if there are no
> pesky atheists around to claim that the statement *is*
> meaningful.
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