Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Getting on my nerves

I really hate it when people make fairly simple logical mistakes. For example.

There are two men and a bee looking at a flower. One man is colorblind. He says that it's grey. The second man says that it's blue. The bee only sees ultraviolet and says it's ultraviolet. They're all right and there's no right answer.

Wrong. They're all wrong.

It's an informational problem. You could know everything colorful about a flower and what wavelengths it reflects. Not by just glancing at it, but by working with it.

It is similar in the religious realm. Many people glance at God and say this or that about him. He loves us. He's a she. He approves of what I do. But, like the colorblind man, we might not be able to see what's there, or like the bee, we may only see a small slice of what's there. It doesn't follow from this that we can never know what God's like or that He doesn't have any real attributes. It just means that you have to think about it before you can get to the right answer.

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