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We Are a Force of Nature

Having just signed out, I am now signing in again, since I have found I have something to say in response to this article by Sam Harris: Mother Nature is not our Friend I posted this as a response on the Richard Dawkins . net site, but think it bears repetition here: There are so many points in this article where I find myself disagreeing with Sam Harris. His first and prime error of logic is that he doesn't define "Nature" and in fact uses the term in two senses, inclusive and exclusive of humans. I take the view that humans are part of nature. In his first paragraph he talks about "the wisdom of nature" and about "real boundaries between the natural and the artificial", but the artificial, that which is made by humans, is itself part of nature. He cites destructive events like asteroid strikes as being acts of nature, which they are, but so would be attempts by humans to deflect them. He says that we are tempted to think that "we, as homo sapien