paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber) (06/06/85)
Along the lines of "design is evidence of a designer" and probability
of life arising by chance: In speaking of "proofs" of God's existence,
Unamuno writes:
"...let us not discuss here that absurd proposition that,
if all the type in a printing press were printed at
random, the result could not possibly be the composition
of *Don Quixote*. Something would be composed which
would be as good as *Don Quixote* for those who would have
to be content with it and would grow in it and would form
part of it."
I love the way he says it. Unamuno was a Catholic philosopher labeled
by some as an existentialist. Reference:
Unamuno, Miguel de. 1952. Tragic Sense of Life. (Translator: J.E.
Crawford Flitch). Dover, New York, p. 162. (Original translation
1921; original Spanish edition = ?).
Regards, Paul Dolber (...duke!phs!paul).