[Alamo-Girl]

This line really drives the point:

Similarly, the true object of architecture is not bricks, mortar, or timber, but the house; and so the principal object of natural philosophy is not the material elements, but their composition, and the totality of the form, independently of which they have no existence.

Thank you so very much for sharing your insights and that wonderful excerpt, dearest sister in Christ!

But this is not a question the Darwinist asks at all.

Indeed. How sad.

[betty boop]

This line really drives the point:

Similarly, the true object of architecture is not bricks, mortar, or timber, but the house; and so the principal object of natural philosophy is not the material elements, but their composition, and the totality of the form, independently of which they have no existence.

...still true, after 2,300+ years....

I'm glad Robert Rosen noticed. :^)

Thank you so much for your kind worlds of support, dearest sister in Christ!