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:rofl: I am immune to such bait EugeneW.

Ok, thanks for the exchange EugeneW. :smile:

I hope you appreciate EugeneW that we are doing ourselves no favours here, in the minds of any readers of our current exchange! It has quickly became ...

So?

So your happy with 'most common' then!

Let's get there first. The scientific explanation will come but I doubt it will happen in our lifetime.

I already told you, as did Darwin, natural selection.

Become dominant or the most common if you don't like 'win.'

Many ancient writings would disagree. Zeus was forever shapeshifting to seduce mortal and immortal females. You have made many somewhat inappropriate ...

Yes but not the resulting phenomena of human consciousness! Those answers are still being sought. Dawkins speaks towards how the brain formed genetica...

The selfish genes are the genes that won through, within the rules of natural selection. To me, 'selfish' just points to the idea that our genes don't...

Procreation can be taken as 'producing offspring' or 'reproducing,' this is not the same as replication. Would your clone be your offspring?, I think ...

Pauli's exclusion principle states that an atom cannot have the same set of quantum numbers in its electronic configuration. It has scientific rigor, ...

So we each layout or claims EugeneW and let the readers of such be our arbiters!

I don't see your issues here. You quote the word 'machines,' which have mechanisms, which is what I typed, no reasons, just natural mechanisms. Dawkin...

So how did it manage to stop and change direction in mid air? Well, I appreciated your attempt to reduce your level of provocation. You have conflicti...

No problem at all, I just have a problem with the theistic lazy, easy, and rather simplistic solution of a supernatural superhero labeled god. I think...

Yes, humans create the problems, humans can create the solutions, we don't need judgment or redemption from a fictitious character that we also create...

Are you not really just saying here, that in your opinion, we are all gods? There is a song by a great Canadian band called Arcade Fire, its called Wa...

I think we have some common ground between Oxford English and Glaswegian Dialect when it comes to oooookkkkkkaaaayyyyy! Perhaps the only difference wo...

ooooookkkkkaaaaayyyyyy! Sorry, I can't do any better :halo:

This is just wordplay, fun, but just prose and rather disjointed.

From the outside, I don't know what a particular human thinks, feels, wants etc. They need to tell me and if they don't then I never will never know, ...

Yeah but there is the residual hope that I may not get a light beam through your theistic fog but I may get a wee shard of light through the theistic ...

No, Dawkins explains the mechanism of life, just as Darwin and many others did. Living life is what humans can do, due to the mechanisms which allow i...

Why not TO LIVE? is that not enough?

Stealing/plagerising William Cowper (1773) (keeps old Joe Mello happy): Dawkins works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. Also stealing from O...

Keep the faith man! Dawkins would have found a way!

Well, I am almost certain that 'The altruistic gene' was one of the titles he thought might have been a better choice.

I think you summarise the theist/atheist debate quite well. It's currently at panto stage really. God exists? Theist: Oh yes it does! Atheist: Nah! se...

I agree and I think this was a poorly judged and fear-based reaction to the 'divine right of kings or/and aristocracy' that the few had manipulated fr...

This is an example of your ability to exclaim wonder and credit for the workings of naturalism. Are you sure such thoughts cannot sustain your humanis...

I think Dawkins himself actually suggested that this title would have been better. Do you get that title from watching one of his interviews?

He himself reports his personal conflict (before, during, and after the date of first publish) regarding his choice of title for this book and if you ...

I think this will only grow in the future possibly even exponentially, but do you think there is anything in this that speaks for the posit of an emer...

All the curent evanhellical ba****** use this exact subterfuge to convince duped theists to contribute many millions to their personal bank accounts.

Yeah, 'ghosts in the machine' became a song title, movie title as well I think. It's a good emotive phrase when I remove my 'literalist' hat. I can on...

Fair enough. Yeah, I just don't subscribe to the association. I think its a valid approach to try to 'reconstruct' certain cultural terms. Homosexuals...

Thanks for your translation, I appreciate your time and effort, spent on my behalf. I don't agree with crediting that which I am convinced does not ex...

Oh, I see it now:

I couldn't spot anything marked 'EDIT' in your last few posts but I did 'like' all you have typed in your last few posts. :smile:

:wink:

I often find a lot of your typing to be rather cryptic and you have to toil a little to follow your meaning but that's just down to my own preference ...

You have a strong imperative towards what I would consider 'humanism.' You add to my hopes for a better future for all of us by such typings!

I think this just about sums up your logic. I am sure we all await more such 'pearls of wisdom' from you. How about: I am not religious but thank god ...

This reminds me of a short extract from a conversation in a crematorium. Employee 1: Wow, what a beautiful corpse! Employee 2: Certainly is! Employee ...

:rofl: :rofl: That's exactly how that conversation would go down! :rofl:

:grin: Always glad to hear about long-lasting and in the main, 'beneficial,' and positive human relationships. I have very good friendships but I have...

Your comments about the 'political left' remind me of the world view of Maggie Thatcher. You, like her, do a great service for 'lefties' like me. You ...

No! :rofl: Stay Mello Joe. Your Mr Angry tattoo shows when your shirt sleeve rides up as you throw your old arms in the air in frustration. It's an ug...