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Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis]Definitions of: upsetDefinition: To set up; to put upright.Definition: To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. Definition: To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. Definition: To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. Definition: To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. Definition: To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner. Definition: Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold. |
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