[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Case]

[Arlo]
I don't think Case ever said the world is purposeless or valueless (but I
appreciate the sly, rhetorical tactic). I think he's said, or I would say,
that "purpose" and "value" arise from activity not because we were
preplanned/designed by some "transcendent intelligence".

[Case]
Actually, what I have said is that purpose arise in us. To that extent that
purpose exists we create it through making mental models of the past and
projecting them into the future. We imagine desired future states and behave
in a manner to bring them into being. But the purpose is not inherent in
nature. This is probably one of those semantic things but I also do not
think there is any drive toward "betterness" either. Betterness like history
is defined by the survivors.