[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

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

> [Arlo]
> Maybe our purpose is to create a new layer of coal for some future beings? Or
> what would you say was the "purpose" of the dinosaurs?
> 
> [Platt]
> Like ours, to live. Why survive? Good question. What's your answer?
> 
> [Arlo]
> You're in the same circular trap as the "survival of the fittest" people. If the
> "purpose" of life is to live, then the answer to "why survive?" is simply "we
> survive so that we can live". Although I respect your acknowledgement that
> "our" purpose is not more supreme than the dinosaurs, it answer the question in
> the question.
> 
> According to you, "we survive so that we can survive". Okay, if that gives you a
> warm, fuzzy important feeling, all power to you.

Again, what's your answer?



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