[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[David M]

Hi Case

Let me try. Divide experience into subjective
aspects and objective/extended aspects. Forget all
about the former aspects and try to explain
all of reality in terms of the concepts that can be
applied to extended objects.

Alternatives: MOQ, romanticism, idealism,
phenomenology, loads of non-western thinking,
common sense, poetry, post-modernism, etc.

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Re: [MD] Dawkins a Materialist


> Could you define materialism?
> Case
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of ian glendinning
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:32 PM
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> Subject: [MD] Dawkins a Materialist
> 
> 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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