Re: Science Struggle

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From: Starbuck
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:00

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>>>A circular argument.  God exists because only he could explain how God
exists
given all the
problems with that idea.<<<<

I didn't put that forward as a rational argument FOR theism, only as an
admission of the limitations of theism as a rational world view.

Granted, it's a circular argument.

But then, even scientific materialism can be used circularly.  It begins
with the apriori assumption of the laws on uniformity, and lack of
supernatural intervention, and then argues itself back to the apriori
assumption that it began with.  We all learn something along the way... but
it isn't an air-tight argument, just a useful one.

The human brain can be examined in reference to it's two hemispheres.. left
side rational and sequential, and the right side being intuitive and
creative.  I suggest that exclusive application of rational thought to
understanding (but not actually experiencing) our human spiritual nature is
using only "half a mind".


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Subject: Re: Science Struggle
Date: 1999/09/24
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