Re: God of the Gaps
glenn morton (mortongr@flash.net)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:14:41 +0000
At 08:03 PM 12/15/99 EST, Cmekve@aol.com wrote:
>You may be right about Drummond first using the term, but these issues keep
>reappearing through history. I suspect that someone in the
>Boyle-Newton-Leibniz era probably dealt with the concept and may have come
>close to using the precise phrase. Leibniz or Descartes would be my guess.
>Similarly, it wouldn't surprise me if one of the medieval nominalists
>addressed the problem. [But in the spirit of truth-in-advertising, I must
>admit that I'm way out of my league in even speculating on this!]
While I am certainly no expert on Leibniz and Descartes, I don't recall
them saying anything like that in the material of theirs that I read during
my graduate work on philosophy. But then that has been quite a while.
glenn
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