<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post116187101477868352..comments</id><updated>2007-04-30T14:43:07.601-05:00</updated><category term='technology'/><category term='futures'/><category term='social cognition'/><category term='acting/choosing'/><category term='evolutionary psychology'/><category term='deric'/><category term='animal behavior'/><category term='memory/learning'/><category term='consciousness'/><category term='attention/perception'/><category term='culture'/><category term='autism'/><category term='human development'/><category term='embodied cognition'/><category term='music'/><category term='language'/><category term='self'/><category term='aging'/><category term='mirror neurons'/><category term='brain plasticity'/><category term='unconscious'/><category term='sleep'/><category term='meditation'/><category term='motivation/reward'/><category term='self help'/><category term='psychology'/><category term='sex'/><category term='fear/anxiety/stress'/><category term='emotion'/><category term='human evolution'/><category term='religion'/><category term='evolution/debate'/><category term='culture/politics'/><category term='happiness'/><category term='faces'/><category term='genes'/><category term='morality'/><title type='text'>Comments on Deric Bownds' MindBlog: The God Delusion</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/feeds/116187101477868352/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/116187101477868352/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2006/10/god-delusion_26.html'/><author><name>Deric</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://dericbownds.net/images/DB_webpic.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-9160435416063529344</id><published>2007-04-30T14:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T14:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well,  indeed,  I suppose that Dawkins is taking n...</title><content type='html'>Well,  indeed,  I suppose that Dawkins is taking non adaptation - which leads to non survival - to be 'bad' in the sense that we wouldn't be around to be talking about all this if we hadn't adapted. But I don't see how this has anything to do with intelligent observations or coming from intelligence..</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/116187101477868352/comments/default/9160435416063529344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/116187101477868352/comments/default/9160435416063529344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2006/10/god-delusion_26.html?showComment=1177962180000#c9160435416063529344' title=''/><author><name>Deric Bownds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2006/10/god-delusion_26.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-116187101477868352' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/posts/default/116187101477868352' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1912802858'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-6229432822448180840</id><published>2007-04-30T13:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T13:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If we are hardwired by evolution to trust our pare...</title><content type='html'>If we are hardwired by evolution to trust our parents because that is evolutionarily "good", Dawkins must then explain the origin of this "beneficial" force that calls survival good, and non adaptation bad.  Since it is a sum of intelligent observations...wouldn't the result of that had to have come from intelligence?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dawkins sees too much purpose in the universe to truly be blind to God.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/116187101477868352/comments/default/6229432822448180840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/116187101477868352/comments/default/6229432822448180840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2006/10/god-delusion_26.html?showComment=1177958340000#c6229432822448180840' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2006/10/god-delusion_26.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-116187101477868352' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22093933/posts/default/116187101477868352' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-201887615'/></entry></feed>
