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I think (s)he's suggesting that Michelangelo is a blind watchmaker and we're seeing a brain on some French toast.
by pohl 16y ago
I think (s)he's suggesting that Michelangelo is a blind watchmaker and we're seeing a brain on some French toast.
- ugh 16y agoProblem with that comparison (seeing Virgin Mary in toast = seeing brain in painting) is only that Michelangelo’s paintings are most definitely a product of intelligent design – no surprise there. If those who see Virgin Mary in a toast would claim that the toaster manufacturer made the toaster so that Virgin Mary would be burnt into toasts I would have no problem with that. That would be a testable hypothesis. It’s just that they don’t. They claim a miracle happened and no amount of evidence could convince them that isn’t the case.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>If those who see Virgin Mary in a toast would claim that the toaster manufacturer made the toaster so that Virgin Mary would be burnt into toasts I would have no problem with that. That would be a testable hypothesis. It’s just that they don’t. I guess in those terms a hypothesis could be that the universe is deterministic in some sense and that the image of the Virgin Mary was effectively programmed into the initial state so as to emerge on that piece of toast. Untestable fo' sure.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI know this is the sort of hot-air comment that HN hates, but I lol-ed, thanks.