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

[Dirk Bruere]

On 8/31/05, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> 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.
> 
> Look on the bright side.
Maybe you can sell the Simulation Argument to the Creationists.
Everybody happy...

Dirk
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