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Originally Posted by Skybird
I read Dawkin's God-Delusion book and liked it - but also his book on evolution, The Selfish Gene. He knows his stuff as a biologist. The first book is a battleground, obviously, and it is intended to be that, but his Selfish Gene is different but brilliant from an academic POV. There is a reason why it gets predominantly extremely positive reviews only - from 30 years back until today. Don't take him as a light-weight, he isn't. There are a few more books by him as well, popular science books.
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I'll be honest Skybird, I have preconceived notions. 60 years ago it was thought the universe was eternal then two fellas Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered echos of a big bang. Now for the last fifty years or so science is, I think, in agreement that the universe had a beginning. Something a 3000 year old book had already stated.
Also, one of the reasons I disagree with Multi Universe Theory it is used in an attempt to deny the universe has a beginning and direction that it is just one big random chance or fluke. And it just doesnt matter to me if we evolved from the simple to the complex. What matters for me is today.
What I want to know, is the brain a function of the soul or is the soul a function of the brain that needed to interpret the energy surrounding us in this dimension of space time and matter. Why are we sentient self aware capable of emotion thought amd feelings when the matter of the universe that from which our bodies come from is not.
Though this too was written some 2-3 thousand years ago. Will this be the next big discovery?
...and breathed into his nostils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a speaking spirit, unto the illumination of the eyes and the hearing of the ears. [And the Adam became a soul of life.]. - Targumin Onkelos
Anyway as for my intial post I found the flash of light at conception just reminded me of the intial intense light at the beginning of the universe which eventually became time space matter.
And I will try to find a used book of Dawkins and give it a go.
