Fwd: [asa] Creation and Incarnation

 *I'm not really sure that I want to jump into this thread, but it strikes
me as odd that we are considering human activity to be non-natural.*

 I thought someone might bring that up. Yes, human activity is "natural" in
a sense, but obviously it adds an element of conscious intent that goes
beyond the mere operation of physical laws (assuming a deterministic view of
the mind is wrong). But ok, set that aside: suppose upon investigation we
learn that all the frfls prayed one day that their hair would turn green.
Could we entertain the notion then that a non-naturalistic cause is
involved?

*Should have known better than to respond to a lawyer. Sorry, folks.*

 Dave -- why is this necessary? I'm not the one who started throwing around
the unfriendly rhetoric. You still haven't responded to anything I've said
on the merits. So what about the merits?

On 8/20/06, Terry M. Gray <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:
> I'm not really sure that I want to jump into this thread, but it
> strikes me as odd that we are considering human activity to be non-
> natural. As far as I can tell there's no violation of any natural
> process when people decide to dy their hair green. It appears that
> some of us are operating with very different means of the word
> "natural".
>
> TG
>
> On Aug 20, 2006, at 7:13 AM, David Opderbeck wrote:
>
> > we know about hair color, the best explanation for a few isolated
> > frfl's is a non-naturalistic one: some people decided to dye their
> > hair gree
>
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