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Author Topic:   Relevance of origins to modern science
ringo
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Message 30 of 124 (707189)
09-24-2013 1:21 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Ra3MaN
09-24-2013 12:05 PM


Ra3MaN writes:
I guess the goal of the origin studies is to allow people to be answerable to no-one.
That's a common misconception - or maybe wishful thinking on the part of True Believers.
We're already answerable to our own consciences and to the other members of our society. For that matter, we're answerable to the flu bug too. We're answerable to real things.
Answerability has nothing to do with origins.

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ringo
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Message 51 of 124 (707340)
09-26-2013 12:15 PM
Reply to: Message 42 by Ra3MaN
09-26-2013 4:38 AM


Ra3MaN writes:
"we are working on it...."
When we stop working on it, that's when you should start worrying. Remember the goober who wanted to close the U.S. Patent Office a century or so ago because there was nothing left to be invented?
Ra3MaN writes:
how much of my questions can really be answered?
When you start getting pat answers to your questions, that's when you should start worrying. People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.

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ringo
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Message 114 of 124 (707831)
10-01-2013 12:42 PM
Reply to: Message 92 by Ra3MaN
10-01-2013 7:08 AM


Ra3MaN writes:
Doesn't being Atheist mean that you can hold you own e.g. moral standards, as a result of there being no God?
If you don't slavishly obey the whims of an alien overlord you have to be responsible for your own morality. That may take the form of following your own conscience and/or the standards of society.

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