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To: one_less who wrote (81949)	12/1/2009 2:25:44 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) of 82486

You want to be able to hide your worldview while you attack and insult others. "while we often find him clinging to dogma as he demonstrates the feral nature of one who knows no distinction between virtue and the baser transgressions of an oaf." "Be free and have peace," Passive aggressive much? (I think the problem is that you are not being forthright about your beliefs and THAT is what's impeding the conversation.) "You might want to try re-thinking that since I have now provided you with multiple prompts and volumes of explanation." "That's just the way it is" has no explanatory force. Why are things just the way they are? Were we intentionally created that way or is it just an accidental unguided result of matter in motion? Why is there matter? Why does it move? You provide no basis to evaluate your assertions. "It would be intolerably intellectually lazy just to shrug one’s shoulders and say, “That’s just the way it is—and a bit of good luck for those who are good at math.” Science has found that the universe is profoundly rationally transparent and beautiful. The feeling of wonder at the marvelous order of the world is a fundamental experience in physics and a fitting reward for all the labor involved in research. In a word, one could say that physics explores a universe that is shot through with signs of mind. Thus the laws of physics seem to point beyond themselves, calling for an explanation of why they have this rational character. It is intellectually unsatisfying simply to treat them as brute fact. (John Polkinghorne)

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