Monday, February 4, 2013
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Had Europe heeded Strato instead of his teacher, Aristotle, perhaps it would have had a thriving science eons ago! Strato is right in denying any kind of teleology- directed outcomes- in science, and by extension any matter related thereto: no directed outcomes means no God-directed outcomes. And it does no good then to argue that no, He doesn't use teleology as that only means He has no reason to exist!
The [Alexander] Smoltczyk argument is that He is neither a principle nor a person nor an entity? Thus, He cannot instantiate Himself as the ultimate reason!
Theologians go from quicksand to quicksand ,never establishing His very existence!
How then might one have a relationship with nothing?
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thales: January 2013
Thales: January 2013
These essays show why religious experience is, as I maintain, just people's own minds at work! Why then would one want to be superstitious? As with full animism, theism= reduced animism, relying on supernatural intent that just is not there!
Neither Thales of Miletus nor Strato of Lampsacus would have been credulous to believe in those experiences as veridical. They warn about that use of teleology. Leucippus would have noted that necessity accounts for all that.
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