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Author Topic:   The Philosophical implications of Darwinism/ID
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05-16-2005 2:46 PM


I would like to submit the following philosophical points for discussion:
1) Darwinism is a philosophical materialistic/naturalist view of evolution, one which holds that life is an accident, and devoid of meaning. As such it serves as a philosophical framework for all secular religions.
2) ID is an optional philosophical view of evolution, one which holds that evolution is by design, and hence contains meaning. This "meaning" can then be defined by an individual according to philosophical reasoning or non-secular religion.
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We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, than miracles may happen.
Richard Lewontin, New York Review of Books, 1999
Ask yourself this, 'Is Humanity more than the sum of its evolved, physical, material parts?'
If you answer no, I submit you are a Darwinist. If you answer yes, you are not a Darwinist. If you disagree, please provide reasoning. I would love to learn how a Darwinist can reasonably and honestly answer yes.
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