[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> No, I do not accept "emergence" as a worthwhile explanation. It's tantamount to
> "oops" which explains nothing.
> 
> [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? 

I don't pretend to know the how the universe and we human beings came to be, but
I suspect it was more than just a lucky accident. Nor do I accept your assertion
of only two other options. Perhaps you can explain how something emerges from
nothing, how order arises from disorder, and why nature corresponds to mathematics. 
 



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