[Dumb_Ox]

Dawkins sez: "the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good"

The enthymeme, of course, being "therefore, there is no evil and no good." We should only avoid death if there is something bad about it.

And in any case, so what? It doesn't have much to do with your question, does it?

I thought you were defending Dawkins's nihilism, and I was responding on that assumption. Its relevance is that an influential pop-scientist is being embarrasingly self-contradictory. If there is no good and no evil, then one cannot condemn those who pursue falsehood on any grounds whatsoever, but Dawkins and his epigones do just that.

[tpaine]

"I thought you were defending Dawkins's nihilism, and I was responding on that assumption."

My post was clear in responding to YOUR question. -- And I asked you some in return.

-- You can't, - or won't reply? - So be it.