Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA04254 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:55:50 +0100 From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 03:59:56 -0500 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Convergence Message-ID: <3B78A23C.30745.1FE2608@localhost> In-reply-to: <000f01c12470$b67bfa80$3b89b2d1@teddace> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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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