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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Re. A Rational Universe
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 17:53:13 EDT
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> [Beth Christy]
> I don't recall
> people marvelling at the 'order' of the universe until they set up
> theories that facilitated their understanding of it.  Primitive people
> with no 'laws of physics' don't sit around marvelling at how ordered the
> universe is - in fact, they make up gods to explain how UNordered things
> are(!).

A worthy hypothesis, and subject to test.  So let's test it.

Presumably you consider the God of the Bible one of those invented to
explain disorder and not order.  Reading Psalm 104, we find a
counterexample to (and hence disproof of) the hypothesis:  the psalmist
marvels at, and attributes the *order* of the creation to his God.

Beth, you've fallen into the trap (just like creationists who criticize
evolution when they don't understand what it is) of *disproving*
something you apparently know little about, in this case making
unsupportable statements easily found to be false by a little
inspection.

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