[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[ian glendinning]

Case,

I use the term in a broad sense, that primary reality is the existence
of "physical objects" (and I read its use that way in the news story
too)

Ian


On 12/12/06, Case <Case at ispots.com> wrote:
> Could you define materialism?
> Case
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> Hi folks,
>
> This news story on a $27m Museum of Creation in "Middle America"
> (Kentucky) perhaps shows the ludicrous excess of faith-based world
> views. Frightening that visitors might actually value this kind of
> misinformation.
>
> The telling issue for me though is the quote from the organisation,
> justifying literal belief in Genesis, as just as valid an "a priori"
> assumption as Dawkins belief in materialism.
>
> I'd have to say I agree. Thank god it's not a matter of choice between
> the two for MoQ'ers. Literal materialism is as dead as literal gods.
> Neither a priori assumption is valid.
>
> Ian
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