So go give them to her. Little Miss Shelley is almost out of the larval stage, and is well over half my age now.
P.S. I hope Karmen is bringing cookies to the party.
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Hi, Gregg!
Plagiarized anything recently?
So here's what Dawkins actually sez. His quotes are in quotes:
"Well, I'm convinced that future physicists will discover something at least as wonderful as any god you could ever imagine." Why not call it God? "I don't think it's helpful to call it God." OK, but what would "it" be like?
"I think it'll be something wonderful and amazing and something difficult to understand. I think that all theological conceptions will be seen as parochial and petty by comparison." He can even see how "design" by some gigantic intelligence might come into it. "But that gigantic intelligence itself would need an explanation. It's not enough to call it God, it would need some sort of explanation such as evolution. Maybe it evolved in another universe and created some computer simulation that we are all a part of. These are all science-fiction suggestions but I am trying to overcome the limitations of the 21st-century mind. It's going to be grander and bigger and more beautiful and more wonderful and it's going to put theology to shame."
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Again, I lob in the words "transcendent" and "numinous", which I believe sum up what he is trying to describe. God, in other words. "I suspect they don't mean anything at all," he says. But being a good scientist, he leaps from the sofa for a dictionary. He reads: "Numinous: divine, spiritual, revealing or indicating the presence of a divinity, awe-inspiring." A moment's pause. Then: "I'll go along with awe-inspiring. Also, aesthetically appealing, uplifting. I'll go along with aesthetically appealing and uplifting. Those aspects of it, yes. Let's look for transcendent."
He finds a definition to do with lying beyond the ordinary range of perception. "That's probably all OK and I could go along with that. Going beyond the range and grasp of the presently experienced. Maybe transcendent would be a good word to adopt."
@The Physicist:
Did you read the rest of that article?
Thank you PZ and all Pharyngulites!
what a coincidence, its my birthday too!