Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA25900 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 11 May 2000 12:34:55 +0100 Subject: Re: Fwd: Did language drive society or vice versa? Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:32:34 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000511113233.AAA12683@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.168]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Robin Faichney made this comment not too long ago --
>Personally, I think all those who insist on the improbability of things being
>as they are, are pushing a disguised creationist, or at least vitalist,
>agenda.
Ain't nothin' personal about it, really. As that great memeticist,
Sherlock Holmes, was recorded to remark, 'Once you've eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth', to which
I attempted to allude previously.
Events that have parsed over billions of years eliminate all kinds of
impossibles, and, lo and behold (emerge and be free!), whatever remains,
AKA life, is truth.
Science is, after all, the study of what is not impossible....
Then again, just because something is not impossible, don't mean one's
gotta do it, but, hey, that's ethics and morality....
Then again, memetics seems to be stuck somewhere inbetween, don't it?
- Wade
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