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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:53:01 -0500 "C. G. Estabrook" <galli...@illinois.edu> writes: > ====================================================================== > Like much of the Hebrew bible (and of the philosophic tradition of > the West) > it's a consideration of the implications of the Abrahamic doctrine > of creation - > a notion admittedly not found in the Greeks (or elsewhere) - with > (Greek) > philosophical tools. > > He quotes Wittgenstein, "Not how the world is, but that it is, is > the mystery." > The former is the province of science. "God" is the label we put on > the answer > (which he insists we do not know) to the question about the latter: > "Why is > there anything instead of nothing?" > > It's a category mistakes to suggest that one can appeal to creation > to explain > why the world is one way or another. Being created makes no > difference to the > universe; you can't find, as it were, God's fingerprints on the > world. > "Intelligent design" is therefore incompatible with the traditional > > Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation. > > God is the unknown answer to the question that the universe by its > existence > poses. Of course, the Abrahamic religions say more - each claims > that that God > has in some sense spoken - at Sinai, in Jesus of Nazareth, and/or > the Qur'an. > > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/561 www.raco.cat/index.php/Ontology/article/viewFile/172778/225133 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
