Re: ID science (subtopic 2)

From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 16:23:38 EDT

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    John Burgeson wrote:
    >
    > >>If I may butt in here, it seems to me that the claim that MN is successful
    > >>does have limited implications for the character of reality. It suggests
    > >>that the physical world has no "gaps" in the sense that the term is used
    > >>when referring to a "God of the
    > Gaps." It does not require that the physical world exhaust reality. I,e.,
    > it implies that the world has no "horizontal gaps" but not necessarily that
    > it is"vertically" complete,>>
    >
    > I'm trying, George. (Some say very trying). I ALMOST understand you here,
    > but not quite. To the extent that I think I understand you I think I don't
    > really agree.
    >
    > Maybe it's the weekend. Happy Easter. He HAS risen!

    Burgy -
            I said "the claim that MN is successful" has implications - not that MN itself
    does. & I should have been more precise & said something like "the considerable success
    of MN has limited implications ..." No method itself can say anything about the real
    world till it's tried in the real world.
            But then my point simply is that our ability to explain phenomena in the
    physical world in terms of natural processes doesn't mean that the physical world is all
    that exists.
                                                            Shalom,
                                                            George

    George L. Murphy
    gmurphy@raex.com
    http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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