ASA - August 2006: RE: [asa] Interesting review of "The Sel

From: Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu>
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 09:56:18 EDT

Someone like Dawkins who seems to be a materialist must define for me what the word "selfish" means in terms of what he considers fundamental, which I suppose is matter-the purely physical. Similarly, how a gene, a living organism, arises from pure nonliving matter. Otherwise, the use of such terms is nonsensical and/or his claims are baseless.

Moorad

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At 08:08 AM 8/17/2006, McCarrick, Alan D CIV NSWCCD Philadelphia, 9260 wrote:

        ....Dawkins deals with issues of morality and ethics a little bit in some recent work - and I am not familiar enough to comment extensively - but what I did read made me think that he seemed to wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Certainly Lewis makes the "moral argument" his central one in Mere Christianity.

        I do have an interesting observation - there was some talk a while back of Lewis' view of evolution. I didn't realize that he repeatedly referred to E in Mere Christianity. These are mostly just incidental references, but he clearly seemed to be accepting that evolution of life and man were to be assumed since science had demonstrated them sufficiently. I must go back and collect those references. ... ~ Alan McCarrick

@ I'll make it easy for you. ~ Janice

At 06:39 PM 6/27/2006, Austerberry, Charles wrote:

...The following quotation comes from "C. S. Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth Letters, 1944-1960" by Gary B. Ferngren and Ronald L. Numbers (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Volume 48, Number 1, March 1996, 28-33, available at
http://www.asa3.org/asa/PSCF/1996/PSCF3-96Ferngren.html ): [snip] ~ Chuck

@ Thanks for the link to that article. I posted it on Free Republic as a thread, and am providing the link to it in case you and the others are interested in reading any of the comments.

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C. S. Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth Letters, 1944-1960
The American Scientific Affiliation Science in Christian Perspective - PSCF 48 (March 1996): 28-33. ^ | March 1996 | Gary B. Ferngren and Ronald L. Numbers
Posted on 06/28/2006 11:06:10 AM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657102/posts

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RE: [asa] Interesting review of "The Selfish Gene"