[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> Platt,
> 
> Saying "duck" is shorthand for "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck" is fine.
> Saying, "and that's all there is to it", is a highly "anti-intellectual" stance.

True, but it's a start. Intellect, like everything else, has to begin somewhere.
Like Pirsig said, "In any hierarchy of metaphysical classification the most
important division is the first one, for this division dominates everything
beneath it." (Lila, 9) In this case, duck or not duck, design or not design. Then
you set about showing why your beginning division is likely true or not.

    

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