Posted in Science on September 29th, 2006 No Comments »
In The God Delusion, Dawkins offers two explanations of our existence. One is an explanation of origins, and the other an explanation of development.
Origins are explained by the anthropic principle and are a statistical argument. It basically says that origins only have to happen once. They are improbable, but because there are large numbers of […]
Posted in Religion on September 28th, 2006 No Comments »
In Dawkins The God Delusion he says:
That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: ‘the idea that it takes a big fancy smart thing to make a lesser thing…
It should be no surprise that our fundamental experience is big fancy things making lesser things, because […]
Posted in Religion on September 26th, 2006 5 Comments »
I got a copy of The God Delusion by Dawkins. Not surprisingly, here are his two theses:
God Hypothesis
There exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately designed and created the universe and everything in it, including us.
Dawkins Hypothesis
Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an […]
Posted in Quote of the Day on September 26th, 2006 1 Comment »
I grabbed this off of Anal Philosopher.
James Nuechterlein on Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
It is difficult to imagine anyone who could have brought more good out of the Civil War—a war that took more American lives than all the rest of the nation’s wars combined—than Abraham Lincoln. He continued in the White House the unique combination of […]