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Old 10-19-2005, 12:30 AM
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Default Richard Dawkings says ....

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This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.


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Hmm, how can a man of Dawkins' undoubted intelligence apply a word like "purpose" to inanimate things?

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.


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Again, the universe has no purpose? Is that intelligible? When applied to the universe?

BTW, if this is what it's like, why bother defining morality?

I also wonder since he thinks there's no design why he thinks there's order(as he's a scientist I'm guessing he believes in the order of the universe)? If the universe is undesigned, would we expect order? Isn't that what we find?
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