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“…I think Richard (Dawkins) is wrong….I think that there's something else. I think the creativity in nature is so stunning and so overwhelming that it's God enough for me…”
I can't believe how often I hear this. I can understand it coming from fundies who blast Dawkins but could never be troubled to read him, but I would hope that Kauffman would have actually read some Dawkins. Dawkins does say that he finds plenty of awe in nature, and that believing in a god or higher power isn't needed for this. As for existence having an intrinsic meaning, outside of the meaning we find in it, as much as we might like it to be so, there just isn't any EVIDENCE for it. Kauffman mentions Neanderthals, they are a useful illustration of this point. They may have buried their dead, maybe were a lot like us in other ways too. But they are still extinct, probably in large part to our species. So, where's the intrinsic meaning in THEIR existance, in the end?
