[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[David M]

> [Arlo]
> Which leaves only two options. Either the cells possessed the necessary
> intelligence to conceptualize, preplan, and then deliberately build a 
> human
> body (a position Pirsig describes as "absurd"), or some other
> "thing/God/being/force" planned, designed and then built us (theism). So 
> which
> is it Platt? Did "Quality" have a blueprint for human bodies in mind 
> billions
> of years ago and then systematically work to produce us? Or did your lone,
> wonderful individual cell "invent" humans and then get a bunch of 
> sheeplike
> cells to carry out its work? Before humans existed, where was the
> conceptualization and intent to form humans in a particular way located?


DM: The 'particular' here as a qualification is very interesting Arlo!