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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.

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 05:07 PM

    I'm so not interested in these questions because they're

    unanswerable. Logic is logic and faith is faith, with an ethical dimension that the logicians don't understand.

    Dawkins doesn't have the mental agility for the faith experience. Fine. No one expects him to. But he has plenty of time for a scientist's mental masturbation. It's funny too that such a great rationalist hasn't noticed that religious folk are the ones caring for the poor and defending the oppressed, while rationalists sit on their self satisfied asses.

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