DILEMMAS: A Response to DHW (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, November 17, 2014, 21:54 (3657 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: my IM hypothesis suggests that organisms direct themselves. You tend to reject anything (apart from human free will) that smells of autonomy. However, I keep having to remind you that ALL these hypotheses are full of ifs and buts. That's why you need faith to cling to one of them.-If Spetner is correct, it was all implanted from the beginning, including his NREH which simple provides adaptation if I interpret him properly, because he doesn't try to fully spell it out.
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> dhw: The discussions between us have always been very helpful and (for me) very instructive, but they will always culminate in dilemmas that can only be resolved by faith, no matter how hard you try to kid yourself that you have all the answers!
> DAVID: Of course one has to accept the final decision on faith. I can do that and I'm not kidding myself. I am satisfied, and you have helped me a great deal as I defend myself.
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> dhw: The day when you are satisfied will be the day you stop thinking, and may that be many years from now.-You are right. Stop investigating the meanings in life is to reach a dead end. Pun intended.