Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA07837 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:40:44 +0100 Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:31:14 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010925123158.AAA18386@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>If a child is learned to have no beliefs,
That ain't what I said. I said a child begins with no beliefs, and, no
reason to form any.
A belief (which word, again, I _only_ use in the sense of an unsupported
declaration of a mechanism of the universe, if you will, like gods and
homeopathy and 'vote democrat') can only be learned from others (possibly
with an agenda to stop you from discovering real things), because, if one
studies the universe, unbiasedly, like a child will do, one can only
discover facts, and facts lead to theories, and theories lead to
experiment and verification, and verification leads to a 'pretty sure
this is how things work' declaration, not an 'I believe the qi was
blocked'.
>You can't believe in nothing, if you do... you do believe !!
Belief should have nothing to do with it.
- Wade
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