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On 10 Aug 2001, at 17:24, Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
>
> > One argues logicallly based upon the facts; the alternative, to
> > argue illogically, always fails to produce a correct conclusion.
> > Stephen Jay Gould, who dismisses Sheldrake, is arguably a greater
> > evolutionary theorist than is Dawkins, and I'll just bet that Daniel
> > Dennett would dismiss him, too.
>
> I've been following this thread with interest, but may have missed a
> critical point: surely no one is saying that Dawkins accepts the
> notion of 'morphic resonance'?
>
Ted Dace has been invoking his name in an insinuendo fashion as
if to imply as much in so many words, although all he has quoted
is a passage where Dawkins seems to have difficulty accepting
that darwinian evolution can account for convergence.
>
> - Lawrence
>
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