As I’ve stated a few times, the conversation we are having here has been done many times. I came across a recent blog that refers to one that has been going on for a while with none less the famous William Lane Craig. It includes comments like this from someone who sounds a lot like our friend here:
But make no mistake: all our dreams, loves, opinions, and desires are figments of our primordial imagination. They are fleeting electrical signals that fire across our synapses for a moment in time.Outside of my greedy little gene’s need to reproduce, there is nothing in my world that stops me from killing you and reproducing with your wife.
The full original post is quoted here, with a Christian’s perspective on it. It refers to this happening a few years ago, but no link to it that I can find.
Bob Seidnsticker at the Cross Examined blog does his best to make sense of this guy, “What I think he means is that there are no objective or transcendental forms of these traits, just the human-created ones.”
He also paints this rather amusing picture of him, (he was given the name John by the Christian site), “I imagine John Nihilist sitting alone in a corner of a café, wearing a beret and a black turtleneck sweater, reading Sartre or maybe Nietzsche, and smoking cigarettes as he sips coffee and muses about the utter meaninglessness of it all. It’s a shame that only objective meaning would satisfy him, because the regular kind works well for the rest of us.”
He states the counter to all the sites and quotes that Xian has begged for in one sentence, “We don’t disprove that love exists when we can explain the biology behind it.” All of Xian’s gurus claim that knowing the neurobiology has some effect on our personal feelings. They do only if you choose to conflate those two separate topics. If you need an ultimate explanation of ultimate meaning, then you’ve created that problem for yourself.
This recent blog at Cross Examined links to the above and more. If you want to hear someone who sounds even more like Xian, click on “You’ve Ruined My Life, Professor Craig!!”