Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: About Sir Eccles, etc. (this one is short!) Message-ID: <204@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 00:53:20 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.204 Posted: Wed Jan 16 00:53:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:52:07 EST References: <215@talcott.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 -- >> Sir Eccles and many other people, and probably Ken Arndt, argue that >> since reason alone cannot answer all questions, we must resort to >> faith. Well, this is simply silly. It's about as silly as some >> doctor saying: "We at the Mayo Clinic have seen for ourselves that >> medicine alone cannot prevent or cure all diseases and deformities. >> Therefore we have decided to go with blood-letting." >> Lack of a right answer does not mean that we should go with a wrong one. >> --- >> Greg Kuperberg Ah, but you jump to conclusions. No one mentioned faith. Intuition is a better word. Lack of a scientific answer does not mean lack of an answer. It *DOES* mean, of course, lack of an answer we are likely to agree on. There is certainly a vast subjective domain (in which reside soul, love, consciousness, and misc. things that go bump in the night) where such agreement is not necessary nor even useful. And you know, real doctors really do exactly what you quoted. They don't know what causes a host of diseases, but they treat them just the same. The blood-letting has been superseded by needless surgery or psychoactive drugs, but then this *is* the 20th century. My question to the sociobiologist hot to find the physiochemical determinants of love is the same one I asked the speed-reading salesman who promised I'd be able to polish off a 300-page novel in 45 minutes: "Why on earth would anybody want to?" -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 09 Jan 85 [20 Nivose An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***