Re: Dembski and Nelson at MIT and Tufts

Kevin O'Brien (Cuchulaine@worldnet.att.net)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:11:11 -0600

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>One can only answer such questions in a speculative, at hoc fashion. We
>search nature as creatures and as such it is hard to know about the
>preexisting Being. Knowledge of this Being comes partially by studying His
>creation or else through revealed truths or else the Being-became-flesh
>fashion. There is no other way.
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Then ID is not a science; it can only be either a theology or a philosophy.

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>Again we are speculating. For all I know our reality may be a mere thought
>in the mind of the Creator.
>

So again ID is not a science, just some form of philosophy or theology.

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>Many people claim that there is no spiritual dimension to man.
>

According to your fish-in-water metaphor, we cannot know if there is a
spiritual dimension and we can never prove there is. Yet you maintain we
are the only known "detector" for such a dimension. That suggests to me
that we can indeed know if there is a spiritual dimension and we might even
be able to prove it.

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>I often
>wonder what would it be like if we indeed became merely material--a blob of
>matter. There certainly would not be thought or reasoning to pure matter.
>

I would certainly like to see your evidence for that. However, if we can
never prove or even know that a spiritual dimension exists, then in point of
fact it may not exist, in which case pure matter obviously can develop
thought and reasoning.

Kevin L. O'Brien