[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

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

> [Platt]
> The point is you can't explain the complexity.  You just say it "emerges" and
> that simple things sometime lead to more complex things. Well, duh. Only you
> call it "Aha." Some explanation! 
> 
> [Arlo]
> It explains everything except giving you a warm, fuzzy feeling that you are
> divinely important by virtue of some "God", oh, excuse me, "transcendent
> intelligence". You ridicule "AHA!" but all you offer in return is "God". Go
> figure.

No. I offer in return Consciousness and Quality, both somewhat more substantial
than "Aha." 

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