Jazzns' History of Belief

Doesn't this defeat the purpose? Seems that there is no propose to hell if it isn't something to be feared and avoided.I have to respect the literalists more than this new age woo stuff. At least the literalists actually believe in something.

Really, basic research is not that difficult. All you have to do is look at Wikipedia. If you don't believe them then follow the footnotes to the sources.

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Herbert Spencer first used the phrase — after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species — in his Principles of Biology (1864), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing, "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."[1]

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Darwin first used Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for natural selection in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869.[2][3] Darwin meant it as a metaphor for "better adapted for immediate, local environment", not the common inference of "in the best physical shape".[4] Hence, it is not a scientific description

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SourceI know that a number of the posters here pooh pooh the use of sources and evidence, but it isn't really that hard.