Marty wrote:
Although it may be an interesting topic to discuss, the existence or
nonexistence of God is irrelevant to the MOQ - Pirsig does not address it
because it is not an issue. Whether God exists or not will not be decided
by reason or argument; it is a matter of faith and belief. While there is
nothing inconsistent in the MOQ concerning God, there is nothing that
requires God to exist - it is simply not a question for the metaphysics of
Quality.
And I can certainly agree, but add what is not a "matter of faith and
belief"? As the subject of "origin" has been touched on recently I ask if
the moq takes Evolution (in the general Darwinian sense) to be a given? And
also wonder if this Evolution is inherent in the moq? I think one could
rightly assume that the journey of the cells that Pirsig alludes to would
have traversed a linear progression from single-celled organisms to it's
present highest form as Man. The only problem I have with this (assuming
Darwin is a necessary component to the moq) is the fact that nothing short of
Science itself is working feverishly to patch the holes it keeps shooting
into Evolutionary dogma. For example, the archaeological discoveries of the
first quarter or so of this century convinced many that we were a very short
time away from piecing together the chain of life. The last fifty years have
proved just the opposite, the Evolutionary chain is more muddled than ever.
Those fossils that should be most readily discoverable, i.e., those closest
to man in his present form, are nowhere to be found. Think about this, the
next time you hear a report about the anthropologist in Hunan or Algeria or
Nebraska who finds a new Lucy or whatever, remember that his dig into the
next stratified layer is coningent on one thing - funding. Therefore, that
chart that we all remember from seventh grade biology, the one with a chimp
gradually ascending to man, is almost completely fabricated. More than one
of the "links" is based on one bone found in one part of the entire world, or
a small piece of one tooth. I, like so many here, was spoon-fed Darwin from
the lowest grades of school in a fashion not dissimilar to the Creationist
theory my friends got in the parochial institutions. By the way, I'm not a
Christian, but I'd like the Truth. And the more I read, the less I believe -
in Christianity and Evolution - it's all a matter of faith.
Clarke
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