[Ham]> The question "why?" demands a reason Not so. "Why?" questions may be answered by giving a reason,a motive, a cause, etc. [Ham] > Evolution...cannot answer the question "Why are we here?".
[Ham] > The question you should be asking is not why we are here But it's you that is asking it! [Ham]> but why we are > aware of ourselves as free, rational, value-discriminating beings, yet are > totally dependent on something external to ourselves for our existence. > That's a metaphysical question that goes beyond the experience of events in > process. Why assume it's "a metaphysical question that goes beyond the experience of events in process", when scientists give us a better answer to "why we are aware of ourselves"& why we "are totally dependent on something external to ourselves for our existence"(e.g., air, water, food), than metaphysicians do? Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
