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Darwin's Debt to Christianity

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Fosdick 
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06-12-2008 11:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Taz
06-12-2008 11:44 AM

Crackpots and creative writing
Taz writes:
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During my undergrad years, I took some literature and creative writing classes with English majors. What amazed and amused me was that English majors could come up with so much bullshit and draw so many imaginary lines connecting completely unrelated things. Are you an English major by any chance? Or are you applying to be one of our resident crackpots?
Makes me wonder what you were expecting from your creative writing classes.
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06-12-2008 12:39 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Taz
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Re: Crackpots and creative writing
[qs=Taz]It wasn't later on that it occured to me that I had to make up bullshit to pas[s] those classes.[/qs] Sometimes, when you write fiction, you have to make up stuff.
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06-12-2008 12:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by no1nose
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In Christianity Jesus is the redeemer and those who follow him are "saved". In Evolution the redeemer is the one member of a species that has a mutation that is advantageous and leads the way to survival.
I like this comparison. Would you suppose then that "the one member" could be a gene instead of an individual, as Dawkins has argued?
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I could see genes as being "the saving grace" for any population that avoids extinction by evolving.
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