[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

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Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> DMB/Ian
> 
> A point I'd like to add: Yes science is successful
> at describing the world we experience, but one reason
> it is successful, and is very dangerous to forget, is that
> science simplifies experience. Instead of the full range
> of qualities it deals only with those that fit its methods,
> such as quantity as this can be measured, repeated,
> modelled by maths, and used to control the behaviour
> of things. As MOQ tells us, there is much more to life
> than understanding and controlling patterns. Much of life
> is unique and without pattern. Hence we have fiction,
> history, art, etc, and the knowledge that goes with them.

Hi David M,

Right on. An excellent expression of the limits of science. Thanks.

Platt

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