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To: betty boop; kosta50
Thank you so much for your excellent essay-post, dearest sister in Christ!

And, Jeepers, kosta50 if you spend some time with betty boop you'll no doubt appreciate her depth of understanding of not only ancient Greek philosophy but how that philosophy has unfolded in Western science, politics and culture.

Her example of wave/particle duality is "spot on." Aristotle's Law of the Excluded Middle does not even apply to quantum mechanics - much less to God.

At the root is always one's sense of "reality." And in this case, if one's sense of reality is perception and reason - he will not only be stuck in physics, he'll only be able to accept a small "god" of his own making - one he can comprehend through Aristotlean logic.

Justin Martyr's testimony on the matter is illuminating. Understanding is incomplete without divine revelation.

13,534 posted on 04/25/2007 9:11:26 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; kosta50; hosepipe
Understanding is incomplete without divine revelation.

It bears repeating, for it is the absolute truth! p> Thank you so much, my dearest sister in Christ, for your very kind words!

13,552 posted on 04/25/2007 10:27:32 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein.)
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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop
kosta50 if you spend some time with betty boop you'll no doubt appreciate her depth of understanding of not only ancient Greek philosophy but how that philosophy has unfolded in Western science, politics and culture

I enjoy very much BB's posts.

Her example of wave/particle duality is "spot on." Aristotle's Law of the Excluded Middle does not even apply to quantum mechanics - much less to God

Wave/particle is a human construct (model) and is not necessarily what subatomic particle (or radiant energy for that matter) is. We can treat them intellectually only as one or the other, but never as both at the same time, and always cognisent that it is just a human model.

Within that model, they are waves, not particles and waves, although they "behave" as both. The "particle" aspect of it is the vector, which is an imaginary path of an imaginary point on an imaginary wave of energy.

At the root is always one's sense of "reality." And in this case, if one's sense of reality is perception and reason - he will not only be stuck in physics, he'll only be able to accept a small "god" of his own making - one he can comprehend through Aristotlean logic

That which is subject to logic will be understood by logic. Whether we use quantum physics or Aristotelian philosophy, we cannot show how big is love.

13,580 posted on 04/25/2007 8:39:19 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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