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To: Fester Chugabrew
Moral judgements from within a universe that has "chance" as its only guiding principle

Chance is not a principle, much less a guiding principle. Taken in broad strokes, chance, or a chaotic universe, is a dynamic system, which will respond to the laws it inherents from it's inception. Moral judgements arise from human concerns, as best I am able to detect. Your argument make the a priori assumption that morality arises from some source outside human concerns--you assume the victory of your argument to make your argument.

2,889 posted on 01/05/2003 10:13:57 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
"Chance is not a principle, much less a guiding principle."

If this is true, then why insist that the definition of science entails predicting results that we can fit into a theory? How are you going to separate "chance" from "predicatability" and still be a scientist?

2,992 posted on 01/05/2003 2:32:43 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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