Wolfe and Materialism

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 11 Feb 2011, 17:00 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:00:24 -0800
Subject: (urth) Wolfe and Materialism
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Gerry Quinn wrote:

> I didn't say that at all. ?What I'm saying is that a 'nuts and bolts'
> explanation - the Ploughman's explanation, if you like - needs to be there.
> Occasionally an author may throw a vagary and include events which are
> deliberately contradictory or inexplicable - but in books written to be
> understood, this tends to be rare.

The question then for me is this:

Can this nuts'n'bolts explanation be "it is a miracle" within the
context of the book, if the book has an explicitly religious
dimension?

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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