Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Seriously?

That’s all they are?

They’re often the thoughts and daily goings on of people in a list culture long gone.

They give us insights to their culture, their laws, and how they lived their lives.

Dismissing them as “squiggles” is an insult to those who came before us and those of us who are interested in these ancient peoples, as well as those who dedicate their lives learning about them.

What someone choses to be insulted by is their prerogative. I find it more fascinating to realize that thoughts can be transmitted into my head by someone that lived millennia ago, via the meaning our minds are able to stamp onto scribbles. That sharing the same psychological infrastructure has allowed us to communicate with one another through the representations we give to noise, scribbles, hand motions, and almost any other medium that can be perceived.

Perhaps one should be insulted by those who praise the scribbles and ignore the creative minds behind them; but again, everyone is free to decide what they're offended by.

Unless you can read languages other than English, no one who 'lived millennia ago' made scribbles than are going to transmit anything into your head.

Boru