In a message dated 2/26/99 11:57:52 PM, Tim wrote:
<<The first is: "See, I told you this was a module of the mind"
The second I shouldn't really bother with given 1.
GO and buy a copy of Richard Dawkin's books (any will do. Extended phenotype is heavy going. I still recommend "The Blind watch Maker".
If this wasn't a module which required you to believe in god, you would
rapidly learn that there has not only been enough time to get from blue
green algae to amoebas but all the way up to humans.
>>
It seems to me that biology researchers (like my son) have extrapolated the most gruesome meme (we are junk that luckily survived) from their seriously flawed (scientifically, not theologically) theory that natural selection is accidental.
Your fearful friend,
Adrian