Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 25 May 2025 17:09:01 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote or quoted:

This is after the creation of the New Heaven and New Earth. Who can
say what their physics may look like?

>
 From a philosophy angle, miracles are possible, since all the
 laws of nature come from stuff we have seen before and just
 describe what happened back then. We can only guess those same
 laws will hold up down the road, but we do not actually know for
 sure. But for now, we have to stick with Occam's razor;
 there is no real point in guessing about miracles happening later on.
 Science laws are called "laws" because they describe the past,
 not because they lay down rules for what has to happen next.
 Still, so far, betting that the old laws keep working has
 always paid off. Technically, the universe could just blink out
 of existence at any moment. That would not really bother anyone.

1. That is an intellectualist/atheist definition of "miracle",
intended to show that none exist. The actual meaning is "something
worth looking at". Or perhaps "something you don't see every day".

2. Science is very good (as far as we can tell) at describing a world
(universe) /corrupted by sin/. It can say nothing about one that is
not. It is, IOW, limited in a way it cannot even detect because
nothing it studies is not corrupted. The situation in which the New
Jerusalem descends is generally considered to taking place in a new
world (universe), freed from sin.

<snip quantum stuff>
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"