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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

God enough

We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:57 AM

    Excellent michaelben ...

    ... your bottomline comment said it all: Unless a concrete discussion on looking at the definition of God and updating that definition is broached (and why God was defined in supposed "fairy-tale" ways in religious texts to begin with), these arguments back-and-forth will be the same-old, same-old, with no new levels of understanding reached by both sides, each one instead staunchly defending their "territory" as always.

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