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Subject: Re: George Coyne and Richard Dawkins
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*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> writes:

> Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:44:39 -0700
>> John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> [time for a snip]
>>>> He got himself into that pickle by saying God is not an intervening
>>>> engineer. The alternative is that every living thing has a soul.
>>> 
>>> There are other alternatives. For example, the soul could be an emergent 
>>> property of the body, particularly of the brain. If he gave us brains 
>>> (mentioned above), souls could have come along with that, and perhaps 
>>> even gradually. Maybe chimps have near-but-not-quite-souls.
>>> 
>> 
>> How about: God emerges from sapient (or could I say superstitious?) beings?
>> 
> People created gods to make up for a puzzling explanatory gap and assuage
> existential angst stemming from self-awareness and knowledge of eventual
> death. The explanatory gap has shrunken but the fear of death remains.
> Transhumanism, which btw has forefathers in Huxley and Teilhard, is merely
> a technonerdish hope of cheating death. 
>

How do you know all that?