[extropy-chat] RE: Please tell us a tree story Spike

[Robert Lindauer]

Well, what exactly is "force" or "field" or "matter" or "time"?

The fundamental difference between a scientistic approach to 
fundamentally mysterious phenomena is -control- not understanding.  That 
control leads the -naive- scientist to think that they also have 
understanding, but it's not so.  Blind or haughty scientism is dogmatic 
about that being -all there is- to understanding.

Robbie


Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 08:14 AM 8/31/2005 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>> Ah, the answer is that one was blown down, but its roots had been
>> helping to balance the tree next to it, which was leaning into the
>> wind. When the first tree fell, the second lost its anchorage on that
>> side, and thus fell away in the opposite direction.
>
>
> Typical godless reductionistic claptrap! In the view of the 64 percent 
> of Americans who demand that Intelligent Falling Theory be taught in 
> high schools to counteract atheistic physics, there is only one 
> tenable explanation. The divine designer caused it to occur (*not* 
> necessarily the biblical God; this is not a religious theory, there 
> you go again), probably by standing between the trees and pushing hard 
> and deliberately.
>
> Damien Broderick
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