Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA04328 (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 11:38:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:55:23 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along Message-ID: <20010924105523.B1098@ii01.org> References: <20010922211119.AAA28720@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.106]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010922211119.AAA28720@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.106]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:11:18PM -0400 From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:11:18PM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Robin Faichney -
>
> >Is there really no significant difference between (a) never having
> >thought about something, and (b) thinking about it then deciding you
> >don't believe in it?
>
> The difference is in the way one is told about that thing in the first
> place.
Within the category of those who have never thought about the reality of
god there are those who were never told about god. Yet you try to equate
this condition with that of having thought about and rejected the concept.
Which is ludicrous. Quite a good example, in fact, of the irrationality
of militant atheism.
-- "A prime source of meta-memes" -- inside information -- http://www.ii01.org/ Robin Faichney=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
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