[MD] The Grand Design

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Mark says to dmb:

Really dmb?  A paralyzing disease, I had no idea.

In terms of the sick joke, I can see you now Sir dmb riding to the rescue of
those poor multimillionaire physicists who can travel farther in their
imaginations in the blink of an eye than most of us.  Yes, I see it now,
sitting in your platinum armor astride your black as night horse, wielding
your bloody (yes bloody) sword of political correctness.  Chopping us all
down in the name of fairyness.

On a more serious note, you may have heard the same interview as I.  I saw
no humility, only condescendence.  The interviewer brought up the topic of
God for a reason.  Now, perhaps I misinterpreted (not uncommon), but there
was a righteous flavor to the whole thing.

Anyway, it is just an opinion, I didn't intend to be derogatory of the
person, only Scientism.

Regards,
Mark

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:26 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Mark said to Adrie:
> If what you guys are suggesting is an attitude of humility and reverence,
> then I must add that I have been to lectures presented by Hawkins.  I can
> tell you that the expression on his face is one of arrogance and disdain...
>  There was an interview with the coauthor a few weeks ago on NPR or some
> affiliate.  There is no suggestion of humility there either.  My way or the
> highway.  In fact the suggestion was of the disproval of God.  Now Andrie,
> from reading the book, would you say this is correct?
>
>
>
> dmb says:
>
> You're going to dismiss one of the world's greatest scientist because of
> the look on his face? Mark, buddy, dude. That would be ridiculous even if he
> didn't have a disfiguring and paralyzing disease, but he does. What cruel
> nonsense! Is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke, or what?
> Can you imagine how desperately anyone in his situation would like to have
> an expressive face and a voice of his own?
> I heard an interview or two with the co-author and he was quite eager to
> dispute the notion that their book denied the existence of God. Their actual
> claim, he insisted, was that God was not part of their physical
> explanations, that it isn't necessary to invoke God in physics.
>
>
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