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Article #42Re: The Five Ways of Aquinas
From: Don Kresch
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:00
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 06:26:25 GMT, in alt.atheism, wizkid@eskimo.com (J. Michael Phillips) etched in the space-time continuum >On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:15:45 GMT, George Reese <borg@imaginary.com> >wrote: > >***snip*** >> >>While one cannot say if somethign exists outside the universe, one can >>certainly say that such things have no causal relation to our >>universe. If they did, they would be part of our universe. > >That's not true. Yes, it most certainly is. To interact with anything in the universe, it must be part of the universe. >If one causes a ripple in a pond, does one become >PART of the pond? No, but one interacts with the pond and must obey the laws we have discovered about water, etc. 'Sides, it's matter, we're matter....we can interact with it. What about "gawd"? > Can one not make ripples in the pond from outside >the pond? Yeah. The pond is of the universe. We are of the universe. Your point is flawed. [snip] Don alt.atheism atheist #51, Knight of BAAWA, DNRC o- Atheist Minister for St. Dogbert. I'm the bastard who killed Kenny
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110d3e,81fe492235568457 X-Google-Attributes: gid110d3e,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd72,16035e13dba83e81 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd72,public X-Google-Thread: 100202,16035e13dba83e81 X-Google-Attributes: gid100202,public X-Google-Thread: f579b,81fe492235568457 X-Google-Attributes: gidf579b,public X-Google-Thread: 116469,16035e13dba83e81 X-Google-Attributes: gid116469,public From: rot13.qxerfpu@rkrpcp.pbz.getridof.com (Don Kresch) Subject: Re: The Five Ways of Aquinas Date: 1998/09/16 Message-ID: <6toleq$hj9@newsops.execpc.com> X-Deja-AN: 391764425 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35e1e006.1217468@eskinews.eskimo.com> <chrisleeEy80sx.6z2@netcom.com> <35e257ae.31853950@eskinews.eskimo.com> <chrisleeEy960v.7wC@netcom.com> <35e74a4d.818137@eskinews.eskimo.com> <35E7CBB5.3F87@earthlink.net> <6sab6r$1ag@newsops.execpc.com> <vClL1.456$oX2.1140524@newsread.com> <5MtL1.1740$E9.5965190@ptah.visi.com> <35ff590d.199448992@eskinews.eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@execpc.com X-Trace: daily-planet.newsops.execpc.com 905959706 18025 (None) 169.207.112.76 Organization: Cult of South Park Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: talk.atheism,alt.atheism,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.philosophy.debate,a.bsu.religion