quote:
Originally posted by Philip:
Question the proposal vs the method.
Empiricism, methinks, deals with methods accurately, until we get into the arts and words of communication.
Are we grunting or creating with our words, Peter?
To be pedantic ... niether.
Words are just an expression of the thoughts behind them.
The thought represents a 'creation', the word simply expresses
it.
It is quite possible to string together a list of words that appear
to be communication to someone reading them ... that does not
mean that there is a 'creation' behind them.
quote:
Originally posted by Philip:
Will empiricism ever allow ID? You and I who suffer in this curse (our doom being death and groaning) speak in what I pecieve as powerful terms; despite the mundaneness of these gruntings, empirically speaking.
If there is evidence which, should it exist, would support ID in
preference to other proposals, then of course empiricism
could allow ID.
That's basically what people here have been asking ... 'Is it
testable?'
As for the other ... the words may well be mundane, but as I
said above, they are only one way of expressing the IDEA
behind the phrase.