Saturday, January 26, 2013

Necessity and mechanism rule!


Mechanism - causalism - teleonomy- and necessity rule. Thales is right to have ruled out teleology- directed outcomes, as science confirms that Nature uses mechanism to produce matters. To infer teleology and design per Lamberth's argument from pareidolia means that people see them instead of the real mechanism and patterns, thus, without teleology intruding, theists per Lamberth's theism = reduced animism, as no difference amongst those who see many spirits, gods or the God in control of Nature exists!
     Why would one then want a relationship with a non-entity!

Necesssity and mechanism


Necessity acts through mechanism: they rule, not any kind of teleology. Too bad that Europe heeded Aristotle, naturalist, who errs with proposing teleology as ruling and his own science held science back.
 Now  science has advanced by using mechanism^ to fathom matters.
 Randomness, necessity's manner of letting matters occur without planning how they affect other matters, and natural selection, the non-planning, anti-random [chance] agency of Nature, works as a sieve, no more than randomness planning outcomes.
   Tis superstitious to discern any teleology whatsoever! Any use of teleology here is use of superstition, so that polytheism and theism as full animism superstitiou.
     That superstition is just a  superfluity as the Aquinas- Shelley argument notes.
   How  then might one have a relationship with a   supercilious superfluous superstition?
     Might you expound on necessity, randomness and mechanism?
       ^ Mechanism  is the standard term. Paul B.Wesz instead uses the term causalism in  " The Sciene of Biology." And Ernst Mayr uses the t erm teleonomy, whence came the name the teleonomic argument.

Leucippus- necessity,not divine intent rules

Leucippus- necessity,not divine intent rules

Friday, January 11, 2013

Oliver Sacks debunks near-death and out-of-body experiences, as well as religious “revelations” « Why Evolution Is True

Oliver Sacks debunks near-death and out-of-body experiences, as well as religious “revelations” « Why Evolution Is True

That reason being Leucippus' necessity!

         Thales would have so agreed! No reason exists to think that the supernatural has anyhing to do with anything whatsoever as it just doesn't exist. Science finds no intent as noted in previous essays here.
          Ti' just superstitious to postulate that some spirit or some god or God has some intent for us. We give ourselves meanings and purposes. We draw on our inner resources without Him helping us when we halo ourselves: ti' magical  thinking to assume that He helps us to draw on them. Oh, one can get others sources of inspiration should one want to, but remembering that one is only drawing on ones own inner resources.
         Yes, to postulate Him would be to condemn Him as evil. Why worship an evil being?
         Why should people be superstitious anyway? Why should any person go for " The Transcendental Temptation," as the late Dr. Kurtz calls the twin superstitions the supernatural and the paranormal? Oh, that is a must read book!

Everything Happens For A Reason | The American Jesus

Everything Happens For A Reason | The American Jesus