XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism, talk.atheism
From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk

In message <1142624666.246139.88850@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Joseph H  writes

>Ah, I see. Once again I begin a thread with a fairly ineresting
>premise: that human beings use belief as a surrogate for knowledge. And
>again the anoraks take over with a riveting discussion about Brownian
>motion and the end of the Cartesian mind-body split.

Anorak? Moi?

> Fascinating, I'm
>sure- but not really addressing my central proposition which is that
>belief has served its time and its purpose and that it's time we moved
>onto knowledge as the source and the basis of our meaning.

Joseph, we all think that. That's why we're humanists.

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ralph

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