[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[ian glendinning]

No problem Arlo,

But there is the moral of the story (my story anyway)
I didn't doubt you for a moment (that's the value of dialogue over
mere words) ... just the phrase left hanging unanswered in the
archives that was at issue ...

BTW in your more detailed response ... again we totally agree, ...
in fact when you say
"But [progress] takes both sides to move, doesn't it?"
(The progress Marsha and I both applaud you for trying to make ...)

You may well draw all the flak I draw for being too balanced and even handed.
Stand up and fight like a man, balance is for wimps :-)

(Oops sorry, just can't stop grinning Marsha.)
Ian


On 1/19/07, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Ian]
> I think the damning by faint praise in the "means well" phrase we need to come
> back to. I'd like to think I'm not as naive as I may sound (I'm an educated
> person in my 50's with a fair bit of first experience of the world's cultures,
> etc ...) but having an intellectual conversation with someone I trust is quite
> different to the way I would behave in a different social situation - you do
> believe that right ?
>
> [Arlo]
> This was a poor choice of words on my part. I meant only that you sincerely
> believe that "intelligent design" is a metaphor, and can construct a cogent
> argument on that point. In other words, I did not believe you were trying to
> slip theism in through the back door.
>
> Sorry if that came across any other way.
>
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