Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA10707 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:41:03 +0100 Message-ID: <000701c1450f$9159ec20$ea06bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: Dawkins was right all along Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:42:09 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> >
> > > 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....
> >
> > Hi Wade,
> >
> > I am a little bit dazzled here.
> > If a child is learned to have no beliefs, in casu and for example to be
an
> > atheist, wouldn 't it than not mean that we have learned this kid a
> > believe!?
> > After all, learning there are no such things as beliefs, religions and
> cults
> > would be a " belief " in itself wouldn 't it !?
> >
> > You can 't believe in nothing, if you do... you do believe !!
> > That 's how your mind works !!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> > ( I am, because we are) still ignorant
> >
>
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