RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 15, 2023 at 11:58 am
(June 14, 2023 at 12:48 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: During an investigative case, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes famously quipped: "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the Goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only a Goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope for from the flowers.”
Perhaps in his later life as a beekeeper, Mr. Holmes realized that a flower's scent and color are a competitive advantage in a world with pollinating insects.
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