[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Case]

[Platt]
The question is, why do those who survive see it that way? If as science
believes we are just meaningless compounds of chemicals in a meaningless
universe, what's the point? 

[Case]
The survivors see it that way because they are the ones still surviving.
Those who see no value in surviving are no longer here or soon to depart.
Why does a fire burn? A fire that could supply its own fuel would burn
indefinitely. Wow, that kinda what we do!

Survivors spark little fires like themselves and just keep on burning. Near
as we can tell this fire has been burning for four billion years.

"We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on..."
-Billy Joel

If you consider the things you truly value I suspect that you will find that
at their root they are things that mainly serve to keep the fire burning.
Maslow's hierarchy certainly identifies such things as fundamental. Things
that support the fire, we experiences as pleasure. Things that would dampen
it, we find painful.

This is not design. This is just what keeps the process going. And that is
the point: to keep the process going.