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To: Right Wing Professor; Fester Chugabrew; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; b_sharp; hosepipe
as the sphere of science expands, the sphere of God shrinks.

Let's cut through the rhetoric--those who say this don't acknowledge that a sphere of God exists. The "sphere of God" is actually people's belief about God.

You can experiment with this bit of rhetoric by using Fester Chugabrew's analogy: Our knowledge of the play expands, our knowledge of the director shrinks. In this instance, it conflates the two into one.

1,125 posted on 12/17/2005 10:42:32 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis; Fester Chugabrew; Alamo-Girl; marron; hosepipe; Amos the Prophet
You can experiment with this bit of rhetoric by using Fester Chugabrew's analogy: Our knowledge of the play expands, our knowledge of the director shrinks. In this instance, it conflates the two into one.

And thereby loses all sense of the play being a collaborative effort of the director, the actors, the supporting crew, all in service of a compelling storyline.

What is really left of the play, when one does that? What can we say about it, then?

Plus to conflate the commensurable with the incommensurable is to commit a major category error. Subsequent thinking according to its terms will be distorted, a falling away from the truth of reality....

Thank you, cornelis, for your perceptive suggestion of this "experiment." It so well captures the "nit" of the problem we're picking over here....

1,126 posted on 12/17/2005 11:41:40 AM PST by betty boop (Dominus illuminatio mea.)
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To: cornelis

The phrase you quoted does not appear in the post you responded to.


1,127 posted on 12/17/2005 11:56:39 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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