Re: Dawkins was right all along

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 23:37:51 BST

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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    >From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: Re: Dawkins was right all along
    >Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:27:11 -0400
    >
    >On 09/23/01 20:35, Scott Chase said this-
    >
    > >You wouldn't equate science with atheism would you?
    >
    >I suppose it's horrible to admit, but, yes, I do. Or rather, I see the
    >state of being atheist, and the state of doing science, as innate states.
    >
    >Base states. Places we start. Once a god is used as an explanation,
    >science is impossible. Once science is used as an explanation, god is
    >impossible. "Science is the first sin." -Neitzsche.
    >
    >Reinforcingly anti-theistic. Unassumingly humanistic.
    >
    >"Theism is mental inbreeding." - Yours truly.
    >
    >And, I've written that on blackboards at the Harvard Divinity School, in
    >un-supervised moments, and that's as militant as I get.
    >
    >
    I'd probably prefer Gould's non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) myself.

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