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NoNukes Member  Posts: 3349 From: Central NC USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.0 |
When we ask why a species of animals exhibits some feature, we might also give an answer based on the theory of evolution. I don't see any significant distinction in scope between that kind of "why" question and the question of why God might have done such a thing. Perhaps a distinction is that only religion professes to provide answer ultimate why questions. Every answered scientific why question can be followed up with yet another question of why things should be as discussed in the answer. The same is not true of the religious why questions. At some point after God is cited as the answer, the questions are cutoff arbitrarily as being beyond the ken of mortals or even blasphemous. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
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NoNukes Member Posts: 3349 From: Central NC USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.0 |
Your proposition seems a bit silly to me. Why cannot the reason for rejecting a goal/purpose for evolution be that they don't accept or believe that there is any purpose? I would think that an atheist would take the religious answers to be nonsensical and/or wrong. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
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NoNukes Member Posts: 3349 From: Central NC USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.0 |
Some of Chuck77 answers in another thread have caused me to rethink my expectations. Surely we want creationists to participate in these threads. But when you don't know all that much science, how are you going to participate in science based discussions? Perhaps calling science "mumbo jumbo" is the best we're going to get. At least it isn't his job five days a week. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
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