Sunday, July 29, 2018
God is like Blackstone
Lately I've been listening to the Blackstone Magic Detective series at bedtime. Like most syndicated radio serials, the plots and characters are low-quality. You can't do much with 10 minutes of drama. The best part is the last five minutes, when Blackstone (played by Edwin Jerome) gives the 'secret' of a small trick. These are parlor magic rather than stage magic, simple enough that anyone can perform them with practice.
Real magicians have enough confidence in their ART that they openly confess the deceptive nature of their CRAFT. When the ART is good enough, you're still fooled and amazed even after you KNOW that the trick is done with hidden gadgetry or concealed motions. It's still magic.
Crappy magicians (eg cult leaders) insist that their trickery is really magic. It's beyond the understanding of mere mortals. Only the Prophet owns the Secret Knowledge. You must obey and pay the Prophet to partake of the Secret Knowledge.
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UncommonDescent often makes this point:
It’s worth keeping in mind that, however else Darwinism functions, it functions pretty much as a form of magic where the origin of vast, interlocking complex structures are concerned.
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Darwinists are crappy magicians. Cult leaders. They insist that the universe was made in unknowable ways by their cheap god, Lord Random. Even after you prove repeatedly that a structure or organ or behavior must have been designed, must be a physical gadget built in advance to create the desired effect, they insist that it's purely spiritual, purely Random.
God is more like Blackstone. God has enough confidence in the ART of life that he reveals the GADGETRY of life openly and consistently. We can see the gadgetry of an 'irreducibly complex' situation like the electric interaction of bees and flowers. We see how it works, and we are still amazed and dumbfounded that it exists.
Labels: Grand Blueprint, skill-estate
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