RE: Dawkins was right all along

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 21:39:01 BST

  • Next message: Scott Chase: "Re: book suggestion" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA13088 (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 21:44:29 +0100
From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Dawkins was right all along
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:39:01 -0700
Message-ID: <JJEIIFOCALCJKOFDFAHBKEIFDIAA.richard@brodietech.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
In-Reply-To: <20010926202441.AAA20887@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Importance: Normal
Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    You seem to think "religion" means blindly believing a fairy tale about the
    nature of reality. I suggest you go to Memorial Church and listen to a few
    sermons by Rev. Peter Gomes. You might be disabused of this ignorant notion.

    Get some data, Wade. Open yourself up for examination.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
    Wade T.Smith
    Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:24 PM
    To: memetics list
    Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along

    >> Ah, but one cannot believe in atheism.

    Atheism is also abelief, in the modern sense that being without a god is
    being without a supernatural belief set about the universe.

    One can only believe in the unnatural, since the natural is evident and
    open to examination.

    Taking the stance of science, one can only arrive at atheism, since there
    is no evidence to be found in nature.

    And I was being flippant, in that I declare such an examination to be
    intentional, since those with religion have no intention to examine
    nature.

    - Wade

    ===============================================================
    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

    ===============================================================
    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

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Sep 26 2001 - 21:54:40 BST