Chris
Or, at least, his *desire*.
How about an overblown ego who claims to *know* that things are designed
because they *look* designed to *him*, as if *his* personal subjective
feelings about such things was to be taken as the absolute bedrock of human
knowledge of Nature?
And how about the people in the tenth century who said, "How about the
overblown egos of those who hope to understand fire or lightning or disease
or heat or why things fall when you hold them out and let go of them, or
computers or television or movies or why microwave ovens work?"?
Bertvan
> > Both sides could be accused of following a God of the gaps. As
naturalistic
> >explanations are found, theists must revise their religion (not a bad
> >system), and as naturalistic explanations reveal more complexity and
> >unexplained phenomina, science must revise it's theories. (The same
excellent
> >system some theists use.) Only an agnostic suspects neither side will
reach
> >any final, ultimate truth.
>
Susan
> I"m not sure science is hunting for "final, ultimate truth." I think
that's
> a religious persuit. And I want a couple of examples were theists modified
> their views because a new explanation was found. (Wait! I can think of
one.
> The Catholic church apologized for that Gallileo thing 400 years after it
> happened. Of course, I'm not sure they explicitly stated that they'd
> changed their minds about the geocentered universe.)
Chris
But, it only took them 400 years to get around to the apology. What more
could you want?