RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 28, 2015 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 11:41 pm by Mudhammam.)
I don't think Heywood understands that the usefulness of inductive argument by way of analogy lies in a comparison of similar features. In order to make this analogy suit his purposes, he invokes similarity in those aspects that humans have mimicked by formalizing natural regularities, to argue for similarity in more fundamental aspects, and these he simply insists we should all just assume---though he offers nothing in support except for largely irrelevant examples of man imitating nature through formal symbols---ignoring that this assumption is the very thing in question (at least in his universe).
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza