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To: D-fendr

Ah, now you're backtracking. That's not the same thing at all.

I would like you to support your statement that any scientist has labeled the "ToE as complete in itself in explaining all knowledge possible about the development of life."

Kindly support the statement or retract it.


65 posted on 10/20/2005 11:30:09 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

I'm not backtracking. I believe Dawkins is saying ToE, or certainly science, is complete in explaining everything about the development of life.

From the jacket to "The Selfish Gene": "Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are nothing more than their throwaway survival machines."

His "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life" is a narrative of four billion years "explaining" all of the origin and development of human life.

No I don't think it a stretch to ascribe to Dawkins that "the ToE is complete in explaining all knowledge possible about the development of life." He certainly would not say anything outside science can be used to explain it.

I honestly think he would quickly agree with this statement and that his writings are in implicit agreement with it.


72 posted on 10/20/2005 11:49:33 AM PDT by D-fendr
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