[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[ian glendinning]

Hi Platt,

I though that was too good to be true :-)
Inserted [IG] below ...

> No, I do not accept "emergence" as a worthwhile explanation. It's tantamount
> to "oops" which explains nothing.
[IG] It says far more than "oops", but clearly you don't buy the explanation.

> Nor do I find "self-organizing" enlightening,
> especially when many who ascribe to that idea also claim "self" as nonexistent.
[IG] Not guilty. Whoever these many are, I'm no one of them. Self
exists like anything else.

> 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.
[IG] We all "see" that teleology Platt, the difficult bit is
explaining why. It always looks like magic if we see it as a single
causal step rather than looking at it through the many layers
involved.

> But, I could be wrong.
[IG] Couldn't we all ?

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