(June 24, 2015 at 9:15 am)Nope Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 8:16 am)Drich Wrote: What makes you think God has left us alone? In the story the third mouse stopped at discovering the mechanical workings of the paino, but as you well know there is much more to a piano making music. If the 3rd mouse kept looking, he would have discovered the keys and ultimately the hands that operated those keys... But again the point of the story was to illustrate that the mouse stopped looking once he could describe how the piano works.
We too stop looking in 'science' once we discover how the 'piano works.' but do not consider the being operating the keys. IF science always stops where the 3rd mouse stops then that would indicate a huge flaw in 'science' Again IF in fact there is a God.
You are interpreting the story with your particular religion in mind but the pianist isn't trying to do anything for the mice. He isn't guiding them or making rules for them and is probably not even aware that they are there. The pianist would probably hire an exterminator or buy a cat if he or she knew they had an infestation of rodents. That sounds like a deist version of a deity.
that's the awesomething about a 'story.' I can make the pianist say or do whatever I like. So if you need the story to include a want or demand of the mice similar to what God wants of us we can amend that. However for the point of this thread and how I used the story to illustrate man's contentment with an explaination of how things work without the 'pianist' the story as is works well.
