[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[Krimel]

[Krimel]
I agree. 

And "...because God said so" lets lots of folks sleep well.

After all precision can be the destroyer of dreams.

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Hi Krim

I'd suggest that the concepts also lead sometimes
to more precision, eg. heat as a liquid (metaphor) lead to
ideas about how to measure it.

DM

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> [Krimel]
> I like to think of disciplines and sets of metaphors as the hands of
> blindmen touching an elephant. The more hands we feel through, the better
> conceptual elephant we can construct. But the elephant we share with each
> other will be function of Bohr's trade off between precision and clarity.
>
> Zoom in, Zoom out, Refocus.
>
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> Hi Krim
>
> Actually your intellectual history is perhaps misleading here.
> There is an intersting  book called God and the Universe that
> is about how metaphors and concepts in all
> kinds of disciplines (from science to theology)
> move around between disciplines and inspire progress. One man's
> vague is another man's insight perhaps. Arthur
> Gibson was the author I think.
>
> David M
>
>
>> [Platt]
>> As I've said many times, I like Pirsig's explanation of the beginning of
>> life.
>> It beats "oops" IMO. It also harmonizes with the rest of his metaphysics.
>>
>> [Krimel]
>> There is nothing in this account that 'explains' the beginning of life. 
>> 
>> It is kind a poetic description that provides the illusion of an 
>> explanation.
>>
>> How does saying that the Dynamic force invents different kinds of
>> molecules differ from God saying, "Let there be Life"?
>