[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Micah]

Craig,

My point was, that we were aware of x-rays. That is why we made detectors.
We are aware of everything we are aware of, and unaware of things we are
unaware of. You, of course, cannot name something you are unaware of, and
"awareness" is a human concept that resides only in humans.

Micah


-----Original Message-----
From: moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org
[mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org]On Behalf Of
craigerb at comcast.net
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:17 PM
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Subject: Re: [MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)


[Micah]
> How did we know to come up with a device to detect things we're not aware
> of?

Here's the story from wikipedia (see History section):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrays

It was mostly an accident, but with

Tesla, Hertz, Rvntgen & Edison working in the area, not surprising.
Craig