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To: PatrickHenry
Thank you so much for your quibble post!

"God did it!" is, I think, a fair (although somewhat abbreviated) statement of creationism. "Nature did it!" is, however, nobody's position. Instead, the scientific position is something along the lines of: "Here is a demonstrable way in which this thing happened naturally." (Observe that there is no reification of "nature.")

If you can get science to give up the anthropic principle then I'll be happy to drop the capital "N"!

155 posted on 04/10/2005 9:37:47 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
If you can get science to give up the anthropic principle then I'll be happy to drop the capital "N"!

Right. As if a lower-case "n" would cure the problem. Come on, A-Girl. First, you know that the anthropic principle is a mere speculation, far from being universally accepted among scientists, and it comes in a few different flavors -- all of which I can easily reject.

Second, is that (the anthropic principle) really the reason you're going to keep on bashing your opponents by characterizing their position with your bumper-strip misrepresentation "Nature did it!"? It can't be. Your pretext for clinging to your bumper-strip is itself a reification "get science to give up ..." used to justify your bumper-strip's claim that the scientific position is a reification of nature.

186 posted on 04/11/2005 3:51:53 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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