On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:54:13PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > Certainly, but neither your mind or mine can *be* those things.
Human minds are capable of abstraction. One's mind need not be infinite to understand the concept of infinity. > I don't think that a gerbil could model human behavior, and in that > sense Gerbils minds are not capable of abstraction and reason. > and being that is worth of the title "God" would be beyond our ability > to model. That does not follow, since our minds are significantly different than gerbils. > But there may be hypothesis that are ultimately untestable. "Does God > exist?" is one I think. Any others? No, that is certainly testable, for any reasonable definition of God. Of course, if you define God as "an untestable phenonmenon" then you cannot test it, but that is not a reasonable definition. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
