(February 26, 2011 at 6:24 am)Nathan Wrote: You seem to think that the laws of physics are not just descriptive but prescriptive, and universally so. You believe that feeding the 5,000 is impossible because the laws of physics say that is impossible. What reason is there to believe that the laws of physics are universally prescriptive? Then there is the epistemological problem of how one could possibly ever establish a law of physics if the conditions for being one are so strong (this is the problem of induction). Finally, if you take the view that laws of physics cannot be broken, you make the implicit assumption that a God with the capacity to temporarily suspend the laws of physics does not exist.
What do you mean by universally prescriptive? Not pertaining to supposed forces outside of the realm of nature? Feeding large amounts of people does not occur and never has occurred on this earth (except in holy books) without there first being enough money and/or resources to acquire the food. Yes, I take the view that the laws of physics can't be broken because they never have been in all of observable science, and I see no reason to summon God as a roundabout force to the laws of nature. Believers need to answer why they are trying to introduce such a presumably complex entity that has so many unshakable powers over nature, yet has failed to move nature in any way except in highly contradictory and scientifically sophomoric holy books.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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