And Lib, I don’t see that Dinsdale was stating absolutely that any god’s existence is impossible. Just making an “if/then” assertion that starts with “if there are no gods.”
I can’t confess to be very knowledgable formal logic, but since when do you have to logically justify an a priori statement? Isn’t it the point of an a priori statement that you take it on faith, as it were, and proceed from there?
For the record, by the way, the point of life is hot sauce and beer.
Actually, biologically speaking, a gene is concerned with the survival of its own carrier to the extent that the carrier must live long enough and be in sufficient health to propagate said gene.