"Logically, if I were solely governed by biology,
then inside me wouldn't burn ideas on how I think things oughta be..."
So goes a little flow I scripted back in college while chewing on the moral argument for God presented by C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity. I didn't realize it at the time, but that verse fragment essentially steps all over the naturalistic worldview. Most peeps I know don't care too much about philosophy, except for maybe the occasional barroom variety. But I love trying to understand this science more lucidly. One of the most fundamental ways to heighten your comprehension of philosophy is by studying logic.
Most people do not study logic formally. But the preeminent scholar Dallas Willard has written an approachable article called "Jesus the Logician" that may surprise you. The reality is that while Aristotle should get credit for developing a theory of logic, without Jesus Christ, there cannot be any logic, any systematic reasoning, nor any true knowledge. Saying "1+1=2" would be as valuable as saying "1+1= cats" without Jesus, who is the Truth upon which all real understanding must begin.
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I was just thinking about a similar subject the other day:
A million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years will NOT yield the greatest novel ever written. In fact, I doubt they would produce any kind of novel, or even a single intelligent sentence with a subject and verb.
It takes logic, direction, and intelligence to write a novel. The idea that a million monkeys could write a novel stems from, I believe, the notion that life, thought, compassion, intelligence, and community can come from a sequence of random events that began with hydrogen molecules attracting one another by gravity. If you believe that planet earth, and its inhabitants, can result from the random formation of matter and energy, then you can believe that a million monkeys can produce a great work of fiction.
There has to be a creator with the faculties of love and logic for this world to exist in its present form.
General,
Great point about the monkey illustration. Some people sure have a lot of faith in random events.
I love cats.
T-Bone
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