It seems funny to me that after 66 long years of studying theology, this man just now decides that the universe is too complex to be without a creator.
(Leaving aside the issue of complexities in the idea of there actually being a physical force or being with enough complexity to create the universe. )
I mean, he could've gotten a lot more attention if he had just told people that God had spoken to him.
quote:Yet biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved," Flew says in the new video,
I get it now. He's never heard of the weak anthropomorphic principle.
(edit: Ralphie. I'm going to start using her name in every post to mess with her ego-search. And yes, Ralphie, I know you're reading this.)
[ December 10, 2004, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Maybe he's just trying to mess with people's expectations.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
(Be nice - I coulda done a dobie.) Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
This reminds me of an old story about an atheist French writer, I think either Voltaire or Rousseau. On his deathbed, he was begged to embrace God and renounce Satan. He replied, " At this point, I can't afford to make any enemies."
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
That's hilarious, Morbo.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
*bows* Thanks. I just hope I didn't misquote--if I did, no doubt the recent influx of French folk here will correct me.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
This thread also brings to mind famous last words. My personal favorite is dancer Isadora Duncan's: "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire." (Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html She said these words as she got into a convertible sportscar, then flung a scarf dramatically around her neck. When the car started off, the scarf stuck in the wheels or axle and strangled her. It's just spooky how appropriate her last words were, though she had no idea she was moments from dying. I read the story in Passages by Connie Willis, a very good sf novel about near death experiences. All the chapters were headed by Famous Last Words.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Others from the link: Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.--Oscar Wilde
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . . Killed in battle during US Civil War. ~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864
I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct. ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702
Anal to the end.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Morbo, you'll love this thread: Famous last words. Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Anthony Flew rebuts the rumors that he has ceased to be an atheist:
Those rumours speak false. I remain still what I have been now for over fifty years, a negative atheist. By this I mean that I construe the initial letter in the word ‘atheist’ in the way in which everyone construes the same initial letter in such words as ‘atypical’ and ‘amoral’. For I still believe that it is impossible either to verify or to falsify - to show to be false - what David Hume in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion happily described as “the religious hypothesis.”
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