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Posted by Wordsmith on September 16, 2002 at 03:38:57:
In Reply to: Re: Is the UNIVERSE a COMPUTER SYSTEM? posted by Paul Rezendes on September 14, 2002 at 15:06:11:

: Eldras, you wrote:

: : from eldras:
: : well how is it different?
: : Ta salutant!
: : ELDRAS

: How is a raven like a writing desk?
: Well, how is it different?

: One answer to your two-part question is: No; it's not located in a box on a desk. On the other hand, if you suggest it is (like a computer system), then doesn't that resurrect the Thomistic argument from intelligent design? Isn't a computer system teleological, i.e., designed to serve a purpose (or group of purposes)? Can this be the same Eldras of old, stomping on the grave of Darwin?

: Gandalf

: no,

: Paul

Howdy, Gan...er, Paul, I mean! Been awhile since we've
chatted. Couple years? Oh, what's time anyhoo? The
older I get the more I come to see time as a mere conveinent fiction to order our lives around. Bergson
and Krishnamurti have made me see the light! E me sometime, OK?

Wordsmith :)

PS I finally suckered Eldras into buying my CD. His mom and sisters love it.

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