The Key to the Universe

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 14 Aug 2010, 00:57 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:57:21 -0700
Subject: (urth) The Key to the Universe
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> That's begging the question, in the original sense. Somehow intelligence had
> arise for the first time in the universe, unless you have a steady state
> universe where intelligence has always existed. There is very strong support
> for the Big Bang, so the steady state model is not convincing locally.

Of course, theism begs the question in an isomoprhic way; it ignores
the question, "And where did God come from?"

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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