[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your excellent post!!!

Now perhaps you will object that formal and final causes are not of interest to science. Okay, I can live with that. But that doesn’t give you a license to say that formal and final causes are irrelevant to the truth of reality. Or even that they do not exist — which is the position of the scientific materialist, a/k/a the metaphysical naturalist.

Yet the scientist who says such a thing is sawing off the very branch on which he himself sits.

LOLOLOL! And so very true!

[betty boop]

Thanks so much, Alamo-Girl, for your kind encouragements! Of course, I do suspect some of our friends here do not have the least clue what I'm talking about.... sigh.....

You know what i think: There are really only two kinds of people in the world, those who look at what is directly, and those who look at what is through the filter of a doctrine. Many of our friends seem definitely to fall into the latter camp.

Now, shall I be flamed for that remark?

Thanks so much for writing, dear friend!