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To: SirLinksalot
Ah, yes, but you see, Dr. Dawkins, even if you leave any trace of supernaturality out of the equation (which I wouldn't, but I digress) it should be obvious that a human being is not a car. If a car has mechanical problems, you can change parts out, or with the newer jobbies, put in a new on-board computer, if that's what is necessary to fix the problem. You can't really change a defective or misbehaving mind or will out of a human being.

And this guy is an Oxford don? Fascinating.

13 posted on 10/20/2006 9:22:09 PM PDT by RichInOC ("I see stupid people. They're everywhere....They don't even know that they're dumb.")
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To: RichInOC
And this guy is an Oxford don?

Richard Dawkins, in a recent poll of the Brits, was considered one of the most (if not the most) influential scientists of our time.
14 posted on 10/20/2006 9:25:02 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: RichInOC

Have you ever read "A World Out of Time"? Awesome novel. It opens with a criminal having his malfunctioning personality "repaired" by being completely replaced with a dying cancer patient's personality.


61 posted on 10/21/2006 6:26:29 AM PDT by Thalos
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