tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post115861631909141368..comments2024-01-01T08:18:36.278-05:00Comments on Real Physics: Papal Controversy: Faith and ReasonLawrence Gagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-1165844530316495922006-12-11T08:42:00.000-05:002006-12-11T08:42:00.000-05:00John,I'm sorry, but your post consisting exclusive...John,<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry, but your post consisting exclusively of links was too much like an advertisement and I had to delete it. You're welcome to share your ideas here, as long as you write something <I>here</I>.<BR/><BR/>LGLawrence Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-1165806700564438542006-12-10T22:11:00.000-05:002006-12-10T22:11:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-1159553819192405682006-09-29T14:16:00.000-04:002006-09-29T14:16:00.000-04:00You're exactly right. As I said in the previous p...You're exactly right. As I said in the <A HREF="http://realphysics.blogspot.com/2006/09/purpose-and-order-in-nature.html" REL="nofollow">previous post</A>: <BR/><BR/>"The champions of chance argue that teleology is an intellectual opiate and kills the quest for the acatual mechanism of change.... Teleology compliments other modes of explanation."<BR/><BR/>And aside from the Divine purpose of nature complimenting the mechanisms that realize that purpose, there's also the fact that God operates through secondary causes. To say that gravity draws a rock to the ground doesn't eliminate God's creation of gravity. Creation has a (finite) share in God's own reason, and we can discover these reasons.<BR/><BR/>LGLawrence Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-1159512163654740312006-09-29T02:42:00.000-04:002006-09-29T02:42:00.000-04:0009 28 06Faith needs a vital connection to reason. ...09 28 06<BR/><BR/><B>Faith needs a vital connection to reason. Without it, man loses direction in his life, and the assertion of individual power becomes the sole rule of conduct.</B><BR/><BR/>Now I totally agree with that. How strange that people cannot seem to reconcile both ideas. That is why I tend to think of a creator for the universe, yet study any types of underlying geometry and mechanisms because I am curious about the how. It bothers me that some would say that the view is oxymoronic...Mahndisa S. Rigmaidenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507292526980604567noreply@blogger.com