Re: The wicked untruths of our church leaders

Richard Corfield <Richard.Corfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-03-30, loiner2003 <loiner2003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm just getting into "The Blind Watchmaker." Dawkins does an excellent
job of explaining the process of evolutionary development and I find
very helpful his analysis of the innumerable small stages in development
and, indeed, of the particle not blending method of taking genetic
material from parents. (How slow we were at understanding the
significance of Mendel!) It seems clear that in the whole process of
development there are in fact no clear boundary lines between one stage
and the next. If at some stage we want to say X is human whereas X minus
N (where N is the previous minute alteration) is not, then we are
imposing a human philosophy on a process for our own better
understanding (perhaps!) But there is no physical line and any
philosophical line has to be very carefully argued and justified. It
cannot be imposed.


If you consider everything as continual processes then you end up
considering us without beginning or end. It's an interesting idea.

The things that make us what/who we are obviously stretch well before
our conception, and our effects on our world will last after we die.

The ancient Greeks apparently held that no man was truly dead so long as
he is remembered by other people. So Homer still lives, as does
Socrates, thanks to Plato.

Peter


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