[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting craigerb at comcast.net:

> [Platt]
> > how did any inorganic patterns begin to self-replicate and why?
> 
> See "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins. 

Can you pass on his answers in a few sentences? Or does he beat around the bush?

> [Platt]
> > There would be no need for metaphysics if science had, or could have, all the
> answers.   
>   
> But only science (& not metaphysics) has the answer to your question.
> Craig

The beginning of life was my question. As you say to Krimel below, see "Lila."

 
> [[Krimel]
> > evolution was never and has never been proposed as a theory to
> > explain the origins of life. 
> 
> See "Lila" by Robert Pirsig.







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