Re: [asa] The Multiverse - Physics or Metaphysics?

I meant "solvent" in a negative sense. (& the "universal solvent" is an ancient alchemical goal - though there's the old joke, "If you find it, what will you keep it in?") I don't think its use in the sense of something that "provides a solution" is common, at least in the U.S., though I see in my old Webster's 2d that that's OK.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Iain Strachan
  To: David Heddle
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] The Multiverse - Physics or Metaphysics?

  I'll reply to David on this one, but in the same post respond to a comment of George's.
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  When George said: "Those who regard natural selection as a kind of universal solvent for traditional beliefs, & especially religion ..." that also rang true with the way I'm thinking. Evolution without doing other science is indeed potentially a universal solution provider. [George, I don't know if you meant "solvent" in both senses of the word; ie something which dissolves something away, AND something which is a solution ie explanation to a problem. Hope I didn't misrepresent you by taking it both ways].
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Received on Wed Sep 12 04:48:15 2007