From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 4 5:57:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB2B37B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CD0643E42 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 13242 invoked by uid 417); 4 Sep 2002 12:57:44 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 12:57:44 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.4.17]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 06:57:42 -0600 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:56:36 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-Id: <20020904085636.2fcba73c.yid@softhome.net> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:12:53 -0700 Terry Lambert wrote: > Joshua Lee wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I don't personally know if there is a God or not. > > > > > > Barring evidence one way or the other, the choice between any > > > two competing hypothesis must be made on the basis of which of > > > the two is simpler. > > > > Terry, William of Occam was a theist. ;-) > > My uncle, who is names on the patent for microwave ovens, still > to this day refuses to have one in his house... your point is? That it's fairly odd to quote a Franciscan Friar in favor of atheism, albeit one that rejected the utility of Medieval scholastic proofs in favor of revelation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message