Offshoot discussion of "what religion are you" thread

[The Gaffer]

Originally posted by Insidious Rex
yes?

Well, that would be something you don't ever see machines doing (though who knows what they get up to when we're out of the house).

I agree that the living machine argument can explain the physical reality we can see. But I think there's a self-referential limit there. You can only explain with science what is explicable with science.

I suppose what I'm saying is that there are things (possibly illusionary) which may be unknowable, or at least inscrutable, like free will. You know, the ghost in the machine. The easy way out is to point to the divine clockmaker.