[MD] Do genes experience?

[Peter Corteen]

Ouch, Ham!

I had to look up 'nihilist' in my Oxford handy dictionary - 'Rejection of
all religious and moral principles'; that's unfair - what am I doing on this
forum if I reject morals?  My handy dictionary didn't have 'reductionist' so
I'll just take that as something aimed to make me feel small.

I'm not  saying everything started from the Big Bang; they may have - I
don't know. But Ham, where do YOU suppose those processes started from - a
creator? You can't use that kind of Intelligent Design hypotheses because
I'll use the same logic against you - then who designed the creator?  I do
read popular science books but, nevertheless, I try to take life as I find
it largely - and I see no creator there. I don't pretend to know how it all
started, maybe it never started - but  why would I want to assume there is a
creator and I am in his experimental fish tank? What would be the advantage
to me in that?

I think Dawkins is right to press his point against religion - it had it's
place once in man's history as a social binding but there are too many
people now and the different religions are the cause of  much friction as
they rub up against each other; it falls to science to solve humanity and
the world's problems now.

Peter