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To: Neocon who wrote (25982)5/26/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Imho they are useful in one regard. They are simple. They do not require first imagining an overarching, intelligent and concerned Being. This is in my view anthropocentrism of the most basic (instinctive?) sort.
Quantum physics gives us examples of "spontaneous generation" on small scales. Who's to say that a five-space continuum can't spontaneously and insensately bud off three-space bubbles? Impossible to prove or disprove - it all reduces to "beer talk". Cool fresh 3D beer, natch. :-)



To: Neocon who wrote (25982)5/26/1999 3:12:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
The interpretation you outlined has the similarly fatal flaw of having to suppose that suddenly, out of the blue, God appeared. It's absurd to suppose that God always was. It's absurd to suppose that there was nothing before there was God. Either way, it's absurd. The fundamental absurdity of existence.


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