Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA03513 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:42:53 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.151] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:35:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F266km4VQ77jWARKToV00003e4d@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2001 00:35:13.0003 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5F1EBB0:01C14490] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
>Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:03:30 -0400
>
>Hi Bill Spight -
>
> >Anyway, learning is not necessary. :-)
>
>Non sequitur. A belief is a learned behavior, especially when taking your
>definition into play. It's only when one speaks the truth that
>remembering is unnecessary, to paraphrase S. Clemens.
>
>To speak to the doubters of atheism (or science) from infancy, a child
>will examine to a cause, if it can, not create a fairy tale.
>
>But, if Grimm (or Qur'an, or Bible, or Mother Goose) is offered....
>
>
You wouldn't equate science with atheism would you?
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