In talk.origins B Kildow <tracker99 at foxinternet.net> wrote:
> zOz wrote:
>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>> because we start from very different premises, it is hopeless
>> for us to convince one another. You cannot take serious
>> panpsychism despite the fact that the most revolutionary and
>> important (by his influence on other scientists) founder of
>> modern science, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a panpsychist.
>>>>http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=515913346>>http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=569040233 ***
>>http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=628287529>>>> On the other side, I cannot take serious your belief that
>> the information stored in amino acid sequences or DNA
>> sequences can be enough to explain complex behaviour of
>> enzymes, let alone instinctive behaviour of animals or even
>> human self-consciousness.
>>>> Darwin says that our ancestors were monkeys. I say we were
>> these monkeys ourselves. Don't you like the idea that you
>> were a monkey 10 million years ago?
>>
> Not my place to reply, but you may want to actually read "The Origin of
> Species" by Charles Darwin. He does not say humans are descended from
> monkeys. Or apes. Or bananas.
Damn. Bananas are out?
I'm so disappointed.
---- Paul J. Gans
