In a message dated 5/2/2005 7:46:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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A goof point Warren, but you forget that genes aren't the *only* unit
of inheritance- culture is also inherited. Sawyer could have just as
well postulated a race of hominids, humanoid pre-cursors, which
On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 5/2/2005 7:46:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A goof point Warren, but you forget that genes aren't the *only* unit
of inheritance- culture is also inherited. Sawyer could have just as
well
On May 8, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
I'm afraid I don't see your post's relevance- I suggested that
counsciousness coulda been a random event, which would enable itself
to be culturally passed down (and really enabling cultural inheritance
in the first place, instead of depending on
On May 2, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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_Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this
weekend.
It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping hole in his story
(two, actually), which he also did with
On 5/6/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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_Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this
weekend.
It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping
On 5/2/05, Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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~Maru
The wordless teaching, neh?
Actually he is GOH at the Houston ApolloCon coming up so I hope to
hear a few words.
--
Gary Denton
Easter Lemming Blogs
http://elemming.blogspot.com
http://elemming2.blogspot.com
On 5/3/05, Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/2/05, Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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~Maru
The wordless teaching, neh?
Actually he is GOH at the Houston ApolloCon coming up so I hope to
hear a few words.
--
Gary Denton
The speech which can be spoken is not the
On 28 Feb 2005, at 12:31 am, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:14 PM, d.brin wrote:
[from the NYT article]
So biology students can be forgiven for wondering whether the
mysterious designer they're told about might not be the biblical
God after all, but rather some very advanced yet
On 5/2/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Feb 2005, at 12:31 am, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:14 PM, d.brin wrote:
[from the NYT article]
So biology students can be forgiven for wondering whether the
mysterious designer they're told about might
On May 2, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Gary Denton wrote:
Robert Sawyer has a novel about intelligent design. A spaceship lands
at a Toronto museum and an alien gets out and says take me to you
paleontologist. The aliens are studying the actions of God on
several worlds in this part of the galaxy. It is
On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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_Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this weekend.
It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping hole in his story
(two, actually), which he also did with _Hominids_.
In CG Sawyer's aliens suggest that the
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/magazine/20WWLN.html
February 20, 2005
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
Unintelligent Design
By JIM HOLT
Recently a school district in rural Pennsylvania officially
recognized a supposed alternative to Darwinism. In a one-minute
statement read by an administrator,
On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:14 PM, d.brin wrote:
[from the NYT article]
So biology students can be forgiven for wondering whether the
mysterious designer they're told about might not be the biblical God
after all, but rather some very advanced yet mischievous or blundering
intelligence --
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