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[Joseph Maurer]

On Sunday 25 January 2009 Krimel answers Platt:

 

>> 
>> [Krimel]
>> You really are shameless to keep trotting out this transparently
>> bogus quote. It should be an embarrassment to Pirsig to have it
>> repeated. I seriously can't imagine anyone who studies biology or
>> basic physics failing to understand that life on earth is a direct
>> result of the constant influx of solar radiation on our planet's
>> surface. 
> 
> [Platt]
> Unfortunately that doesn't answer Pirsig's questions. It's like
> saying anyone who studies theology knows God exists.
 
> [Krimel]
> Ahhha, but it does answer both why and how. It certainly does not do
> so by suggesting something as ludicrous as natural process reversing
> themselves. That's just simple minded.
> 
> BTW, there are theologians who claim God does not exist. I believe
> you will find far more of them than you will find biologists
> claiming that life springs from a supernatural source.
 

Hi Krimel, Platt and all,

[Joe]
I have studied the writings of Thomas Aquinas.  At the end of his life he is
reputed to have said: ³What I have written is as straw!²  I don¹t know if
this a repudiation of his five proofs for the existence of God, but it
certainly seems to fit.

[Joe]
At the end of his life Aquinas composed the music and words for the
Sequences for the office for Corpus Christi.  I have sung the Lauda Sion
many times and it is magnificent.  I have a feeling that he climbed to a
different level in himself than when he was explicating the writings of
Aristotle in Christian terms.

Joe

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