From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 4 15:44: 3 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 B9B2437B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80BF43E3B for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84MhxGd038246; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g84MhxgP038243; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Joshua Lee Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <20020904085636.2fcba73c.yid@softhome.net> Message-ID: <20020904154209.D13440-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 4 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > 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. It's because if you supply your own definition of "simple", Occam's razor can be used to prove anything. Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message