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On the Doomsday Clock?
An Asymptotic assumption!
Originally Posted By: zmjezhdhe's always at eleven.
I think our favorite peditum senex is saying that's where Dawkins's amp is set. I think it was The God Delusion I read, just to see if he really did say that Science could solve everything as was claimed by someone in the anti-Dawkins camp. Eleven sounds like a pretty good one word summation.
Everyone knows intuitively that if you say something louder it becomes truer.
peditum senex
Now that's closer to the flavor of the English term. Whilst we're here, I should mention that there are two reconstructed PIE roots dealing with farts and farting: *pezd- (A-H and Pokorny) 'to fart loudly' and perd- (A-H and Pokorny) 'to fart'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
But to say Dawkins is as annoying as the Intelligent Design camp is grossly overstating matters.
Originally Posted By: HydraBut to say Dawkins is as annoying as the Intelligent Design camp is grossly overstating matters.
Depends what annoys you I guess.
But...
1. Is there such a thing as 'the Intelligent Design Camp' per se? 'Intelligent Design' is as broad a term as 'Theist' or 'Humanist' or 'Muslim'. I don't think it's that centralized. It includes people ranging from fundamentalist Christians to Agnostics.
2. Dawkins is only one person, whereas 'The Inteeligent Design Camp' are many. Even if he is only almost as annoying, that's quite an achievement for an individual.
It all grates on the nerves, but Dawkins is grinding a better axe.
Well have to agree to differ on that one.
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