To be an atheist means to deny God, not to believe i ”nature”.
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[mailto:everything-list.domain.name.hidden] För Bruno Marchal
Skickat: den 5 oktober 2006 17:07
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Ämne: Re: SV: Barbour's mistake: An alternative to a timless Platonia
Le 05-oct.-06, ā 16:03, Lennart Nilsson a écrit :
Only atheist have reason to dislike the consequence of comp. Not because
they would be wrong, but because their belief in "nature" is shown to need
an act of faith (and atheists hate the very notion of faith).
Bruno
That is the most absurd statement so far…
Unless you are confusing atheism and agnosticism, or ... you should explain
why you find this absurd. the UDA precisely illustrates that the "modest
scientist" should not take "nature" for granted. Of course by nature, I mean
the aristotelian conception of nature as something primitive, i.e. which is
at the root of everything else. This does not necessarily jeopardize the
actual *theories* of nature, just the interpretation of those theories. This
is a good thing given that physicists today admit there is no unanimity on
the interpretation of physical theories.
And I argue since that if we assume comp physics cannot be the fundamental
science, it has to be derive from psychology, biology, theology, number
theory, computer science, well chose your favorite name, they are all
imprecise enough.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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