[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

Platt Holden pholden at davtv.com
Thu Mar 13 15:06:13 PDT 2008


> Craig asks:
> 
> > Which is a better explanation of why there is
> > something rather than nothing:
> > a) something appears out of nowhere/nothing
> > or
> > b) something always existed?
> 
> Krimel answers:
> > How about?
> > c) Mu
> 
> Ham sputters:
> This is the fallback position of the nihilist.  If something can't be 
> explained in terms of experience, it's not worth bothering about.  
> 
> [Krimel]
> Actually, it suggests that when presented with options but no possibility of
> resolving them we should suspend judgment or unask the question.

"No possibility" if you subscribe to the ideology of scientific 
rationalism. But many of us believe there is rationality beyond the 
scientific method, a rationality that, for example, takes into account 
values. 

Platt
   



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