[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]> The question "why?" demands a reason
Not so. "Why?" questions may be answered by giving a reason,a motive, a cause, etc.
[Ham]
> Evolution...cannot answer the question "Why are we here?".

[Ham]
> The question you should be asking is not why we are here
But it's you that is asking it!
[Ham]> but why we are
> aware of ourselves as free, rational, value-discriminating beings, yet are 
> totally dependent on something external to ourselves for our existence. 
> That's a metaphysical question that goes beyond the experience of events in 
> process.
Why assume it's "a metaphysical question that goes beyond the experience of events in 
process", when scientists give us a better answer to "why we are aware of ourselves"& why we "are totally dependent on something external to ourselves for our existence"(e.g., air, water, food), than metaphysicians do? Craig