On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:22:34 -0700, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:


>Just as you can experience that a filet mignon or an ice cream cone tastes
good,
>but you cannot prove to someone else that they taste good if they refuse to
put
>it in their mouth, similarly, one can experience that - for sure - "who we
are"
>- awareness - does not come from our brains, but rather is the fundamental
>essence of everything.

But certainly someone else could  observe a brain catscan of me
while I eat and make some empirical observations.


>Fred Hoyle, a famous astronomer, and a mathematician friend of his, once
decided
>that they should calculate the likelihood of the occurrence, by random
chance,
>of all the conditions necessary for the first life to be created, during
what we
>now consider to be the age of the universe.
>
>The number they came up with, was equivalent to the likelihood of a tornado
>going through a large junk yard and creating a perfectly operating Boeing
747.
>
>After this calculation, the mathematician friend became, as you say,
"devoutly
>religious".


One might have thought that with Dawkins "The Blind Watchmaker"
and others that the
Argument from Design reduxes would have been further shown to be
nonsense.

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com