Upon hearing an Eric Clapton guitar solo

[fpb]

At times like this, I really do feel sorry for atheists. One has to be grateful for artistry so miraculous, but they have nobody to be grateful to. (And don't give me any crap about "the human spirit" - that is what we owe the Murdoch press and robotic dance noise to.)

Comments

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

So to you the unpredictability and hence uncontrollability of the phenomenon of genius implies that the atheist's experience of (exposure to) it is incomplete?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Um. Putting it like that jumps a few connections I would make, and I would not say that that is the main feature about it. But having said all that - yes.

That is a long journey for something I really meant as a boutade - and that is not very novel either.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Okay.

As far as contemporary science knows, it is in principle impossible to predict the position at which an electron will hit a screen after it passes through a narrow slit. Is the atheist's appreciation of this phenomenon incomplete?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Did an electron write the Divine Comedy? And yes, I know that Dante's body was full of electrons. As for the principle of randomness, I think it is completed once you understand it as an aspect of the free will of a sovereign God as expressed in His creation.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Since you seem to be concerned with tackling that which you assume I am going to say after you answer "no", am I to take it that your answer to my question is "no"?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I thought the question had to do with the principle of randomness and I tried to answer it accordingly.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

The question is the following: are there natural phenomena which are unpredictable (either in principle or in practice - due to their great complexity) of which the atheist's experience is complete? If yes - please provide an example. If no - please justify.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No. Because everything that exists has an extra dimension from whose perception the atheist has cut him/herself off.