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Re: William Hughes, care to comment? Re: Dawkins: God is Highly Plausible:
Posted:
Feb 10, 2013 7:29 PM
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On 2/10/2013 2:58 PM, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
> William Hughes <wpihughes@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Feb 10, 5:45 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...@phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>>> Hey, William.
>>> You recently suggested that BroilJAB's stupid (and often racist) posts
>>> usually have some (admittedly very tenuous) connection to reality.
>>> That really surprised me.
>>> Is the following made-up quote a counterexample to what you claimed?
>>> Or is there some tenuous connection I don't see?
>>> Just curious.
>>>
>>> BroilJAB <DesignDen...@wmconnect.com> writes:
>>>> "The specified complexity of Life and the Cosmos
>>>> render the existence of God highly plausible."
>>>> -Dr Dawkins.
>>
>> Actually, this was one of the examples I was thinking
>> of. The "quote" is made up, but there is
>> a tenuous connection to the truth. Dr Dawkins is on
>> record as saying that the existence of godlike
>> creatures is plausible. (Nothing to do with
>> complexity, specified or otherwise).
>
> Okay, thanks. I don't suppose I know the Dawkins comment
> you refer to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/science/20dawkins.html?hpw&_r=0
A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy (page 4)
The quote which has some people reaching for their smelling
salts is:
> Doesn?t that description sound an awful lot like God?
>
> ?Certainly,? Professor Dawkins replies. ?It?s highly plausible
> that in the universe there are God-like creatures.?
And then the article goes on:
> He raises his hand, just in case a reader thinks he?s
> gone around a religious bend. ?It?s very important to understand
> that these Gods came into being by an explicable
> scientific progression of incremental evolution.?
It seems to me that, beyond some blurry but real point on the
more-tenuous/less-tenuous spectrum, the so-tenuous connection
is irrelevant, as far as communication is concerned. In my
judgment, BroilJAB passed that point a ways back.
Everything has a connection to everything. I don't think that
means that it doesn't matter what I say because anything
I say will be true -- in some tenuous sense.
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