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Thread #160033 Message #3793750
Posted By: Will Fly
04-Jun-16 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Subject: RE: BS: Logic and the laws of science
We're drawn to see a pattern in everything - that's the way our brains work - and concepts like "logic" and "reason" and "rules" seem to be a logical outcome of that pattern-making tendency. But I think the world/nature around us demonstrates too much chaos and haphazardness for those concepts to hold ultimate sway. What we like to call the "Laws of Nature" may apply at the micro level but, at the macro level - galaxies, star systems - there's a deal of unknowingness.
I don't believe in Intelligent Design. To me, it's simply a back door method of persuading people that there is a supreme being who had some hand in our creation, and I think the theory was adequately and completely demolished by Richard Dawkins (in "The Blind Watchmaker").
I'm aware that some people on this forum have little or no time for Dawkins and his theories, believing him to be a fanatic. I happen to have met him and talked with him, and found him to be one of the sanest and most perceptive of people. And - irony of ironies - logical!