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Old December 26th 05, 05:26 PM posted to alt.astronomy,alt.fan.art-bell,alt.usenet.kooks
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Bill Sheppard wrote:

From Bert:

Science and religion have nothing to do
with each other. Reality is there is no
evidence of intelligence design in making the universe.


Hey Bert, 'member your often repeated statement that the universe
evolved us so that it could "see itself"?
The issue became acutely apparent to Bishop George
Berkeley around 300 years ago during resurgence of the 'aether'
theories. Belief in a preexistant, all-causal Substrate or 'aether'
would inevitably lead to the same conclusion you voiced. Such a
Substrate would have the very attributes of God, embued with the
imperative to ultimately "see itself".
So Berkeley set upon the first concerted 'No Substrate'
campaign, which is found interspersed throughout his writings.
Sovereignty of the church's sky-God had to be maintained at all cost:
the sky-God, his material creation, and by tacit implication, the 'Void'
between the two became paramount. Here is found the historical roots of
the Void-Space Paradigm. It began as a theological edict. And
unbelievably, 200 years later, it burst on the scene anew, in a new
guise as the bedrock doctrine of secular science. And the rest, as they
say, is history.

Gordon Wolter believed the spatial medium to be a vast and incredibly
rich information field, that it purposefully drives evolution to its
ultimate expression as an upright biped pondering its cosmic origin.. in
essence, the same thing you said.

oc


I think if you rant about "void-space" another 100,000 times on usenet,
every physicist will see the light and drop all this secular science
nonsense.

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