[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> Platt are you saying, that faced with Johnson's description of
> "emergence" you are accepting emergence as a worthwhile explanatory
> concept ? I believe "the argument from intelligent design" as you call
> it, boils down to the same "engineering" or "self-organising complex
> systems" view of how seemingly magical things emerge from many
> simple(r) things. It's only magical (seemingly telelogical according
> to some higher intelligence) if we skip across the many levels
> involved in the emergence.

No, I do not accept "emergence" as a worthwhile explanation. It's tantamount
to "oops" which explains nothing. Nor do I find "self-organizing" enlightening,
especially when many who ascribe to that idea also claim "self" as nonexistent.
As for magic, every time a chick steps out whole from an egg like the one
I had for breakfast this morning, I see teleology. But, I could be wrong.  


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