Re: Convergence

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Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 09:59:56 BST

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    On 13 Aug 2001, at 20:25, Dace wrote:

    > From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
    >
    >
    > > 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.
    >
    > In what way does quoting a passage of Dawkins, in which he notes the
    > extreme improbability of convergence, insinuate that he believes in
    > morphic resonance? Do you actually think I'm trying to get the people
    > on this list believing that Dawkins is a follower of Sheldrake? This
    > is really insulting, really uncalled for.
    >
    I'm sure that Dawkins would be insulted.
    >
    > Ted Dace
    >
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