Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:01:17 -0400 From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020909220117.5343f09b.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <20020906124405.V94577-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> References: <20020905202034.77ef17b3.yid@softhome.net> <20020906124405.V94577-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:05:40 -0700 (PDT)
"Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> wrote:
> > > I think you are operating on a Thomistic notion of "faith". Faith
> > > does not take over where reason leaves off. Faith is the
> > > foundation of reason. Reasoning would not even be possible
> > > without faith. I argue that only *Christian* faith can account
> > > for reason, but here I suppose we disagree.
> >
> > Until you prove that through your faith you can reason better than
> > the rest of us, a thesis very much in doubt, this statement is
> > unsupportable.
>
> Well, please go back and read some of my posts to Terry and Dave.
ROFL!
> For example, the naturalist cannot account for human reason, since
> according to a naturalist, everything that happens in the human brain
> is just electro-chemical responses in the brain which have nothing to
> do with "truth", "error", "right reason", etc. If a person is a
A computer programmer cannot account for computer programms, because
they are composed of moving electrons that have nothing to do with:
printf ("Hello world.\n");
> naturalist, he has no reason to be a naturalist. He must also say
> that other people's beliefs in God are also only the result of
> electro-chemical responses in the brain. He could never know whether
> or not he was right, since every attempt to reason his way to the
> truth is just more electro-chemical responses in the brain, and hence,
> the results of *these* reactions are also suspect.
If this is an example of your "superior xtian reason", I'll have none of
it. ;-)
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