[betty boop]

FYI ... if you have the time and interest!

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. You are indeed a wonder!

[balrog666]

For the record, I have no interest in such twaddle.

[Alamo-Girl]

I'm thrilled to see you have it posted, betty boop! Sadly, I have to take care of some other things now but I'll be back to read up on all the comments this evening.

[blue-duncan]

Do you ladies have Cliff Notes for this article? I feel like Charlie Brown looking at the clouds with Schroeder and all that I can see are horsies and cows while you see Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach. God is good to give us mortals gifted people like you to explain the wonders of His creation.

[Cvengr]

2 issues arise.
Firstly, the monist assertion of only a physical world fails to recognize a metaphysical significance in the rules of inference and 'laws of logic'. Just as there are skew lines, parallel and perpendicular lines in space, there would seem to be just as many rules of inference which aren't inutitive nor dependent upon the ones we might recognize intuitively. Our ability to perceive their correlation with a physical world seems to imply a wider domain of logic beyond our mere understanding.

Secondly, although we may have a wealth of technology and advanced science of the physical world around us today, the philosophy has been pondered for millenia by minds as equally as fervant, possibly more honed and focused than our own. When we read Scripture, an amazing volume of God's Word is dedicated to the topic. Scripture also speaks of miracles in greater and lessor cases. To deny such miracles or confine them to misperception is as( or moreso) ignorant of clues to truth than the supposition that those who wrote such things in Scripture spoke from a lack of knowledge.