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I really wish Perseus didn't suck so bad. Every time I run into a problem that only it can solve, I know it's going to end in tears. We should see if grey-eyed Athena can get him some more CPU cycles.
In other news, this book might be the most quietly weird thing I've seen all month. It's a fruit of that Google/Stanford library-eating project, and it looks like it got checked out 7 times in the preceding 35 years. Turn straight to page 347 if you're impatient -- it's like a stoned dorm-room conversation about the chicken/egg paradox gone feral. Near as I can tell, he's saying that it would have been impossible for God to create a thing without simultaneously creating its entire physical history. I think. Consequently, there doesn't seem to be any possible epistemology of creation, since a world created yesterday is going to be indistinguishable (even to the creatures inhabiting it) from one created 4000 years ago. Meanwhile, Darwin's raising holy hell over at the Geological Society and getting ready to publish the Origin of Species in two years, so I suppose if there was ever a time for a godly man to overdo it a bit on the bongrips and see what falls out on the page, that must have seemed like it.
In other news, this book might be the most quietly weird thing I've seen all month. It's a fruit of that Google/Stanford library-eating project, and it looks like it got checked out 7 times in the preceding 35 years. Turn straight to page 347 if you're impatient -- it's like a stoned dorm-room conversation about the chicken/egg paradox gone feral. Near as I can tell, he's saying that it would have been impossible for God to create a thing without simultaneously creating its entire physical history. I think. Consequently, there doesn't seem to be any possible epistemology of creation, since a world created yesterday is going to be indistinguishable (even to the creatures inhabiting it) from one created 4000 years ago. Meanwhile, Darwin's raising holy hell over at the Geological Society and getting ready to publish the Origin of Species in two years, so I suppose if there was ever a time for a godly man to overdo it a bit on the bongrips and see what falls out on the page, that must have seemed like it.