From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 11:51:44 MST
From: ASpidle@aol.com
>Thanks Brian. I would really like to meet you guys sometime. I
>bet that would be great.
Become a member and join us at the conference in August
>With regards to the starving children, I'm afraid that's the price
>we pay for free will. A God who fed all children would have to
>take away our free will. Which would you rather have?
Honestly? All the children fed.
>Free will comes with a heavy price.
This is the classic argument I remember from (Dennet's?) "Is god a
taoist?"
While the starving children argument proves to my satisfaction the
lack of a personal god (all knowing, all caring, all powerful, etc)
the free will argument does nothing to prove the existence or lack
of a supreme being.
It's complexity and emergent phenomena that keep me an agnostic....
;)
Brian
Member, Extropy Institute
www.extropy.org
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