[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[ian glendinning]

Jos,

Right back to your start of this spin-off thread ... you said Dawkins
is not unaware of our litte debates.

I can confirm that. His "official" web-site included some time ago a
thread he started called "I'm an atheist but ...". It was about all
the arguments atheists have with Dawkins. (I commented on it, but i
didn't see any other MoQ'ers.)

I'll dig out the link.

Ian

On 1/19/07, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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