tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post110555309434412283..comments2023-04-26T03:23:53.260-06:00Comments on Odious and Peculiar: Peculiarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849337750990440147noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4150507.post-1105583181424199632005-01-12T19:26:00.000-07:002005-01-12T19:26:00.000-07:00But derision is why one goes to Mr. Derbyshire--de...But derision is why one goes to Mr. Derbyshire--derision with occasional forays in mathematics and meeting Bruce Lee.<br /><br />As for "poverty of imagination", dismal or otherwise, it's not a phrase I'm particularly fond of, but I think that it certainly applies here. There's a failure of scale to Intelligent Design--a failure to appreciate what being a Creator, the fundamental act-of-being of the Universe, would mean. As I've argued before, (http://odiousandpeculiar.blogspot.com/2004/11/great-deal-of-time-these-days-in-spent.html), assuming that Creation, rather than emerging from God's nature (tho' remaining spontaneous, that is, unnecessary to Him), required some kind of special pleading in the form of physical intervention is to reduce God to the level of an actor, rather than the basis for action. I think I have all my phrases straight in that last sentence.Odioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02460176818086668924noreply@blogger.com