To: Alamo-Girl; SeaLion; betty boop; xzins; marron
Interesting point--but it's actually quite a massive leap from 'intelligence' to 'intelligent cause'.... I would like to understand why the speaker thinks a world that contains intelligent beings can have less than an intelligent cause.
75 posted on
09/23/2005 11:08:33 AM PDT by
betty boop
(Nature loves to hide. -- Heraclitus)
To: betty boop
Continuity is a comforting way to approach the world. How can something as well-known and so controversial as consciousness just suddenly appear in the universe?
77 posted on
09/23/2005 11:11:31 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(We in heep dip trubble)
To: betty boop
I would like to understand why the speaker thinks a world that contains intelligent beings can have less than an intelligent cause.
Indeed. I would like to hear that also!
To: betty boop
I would like to understand why the speaker thinks a world that contains intelligent beings can have less than an intelligent cause. Good question -- and I'd love to kick it around when time permits -- can we call this a placemaker for now?
But I should point, I'm a linguist--and we are lousy at metaphysics : )
111 posted on
09/23/2005 12:37:51 PM PDT by
SeaLion
("Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man" -- Thomas Paine)
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