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Author Topic:   What we must accept if we accept evolution Part 2
robinrohan
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Message 283 of 301 (284421)
02-06-2006 3:03 PM
Reply to: Message 273 by Faith
02-06-2006 6:25 AM


Re: the aesthete and the nihilist
Anyway I'm glad you explained what you meant about "aesthete" being the same as "nihilist" as I didn't get it either. Now I do.
They are really more like private definitions that I worked out. I like to put labels on these liitle ideas because I have a neat mind. That's the only thing about me that's neat.
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robinrohan
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Message 284 of 301 (284422)
02-06-2006 3:08 PM
Reply to: Message 271 by Modulous
02-05-2006 1:17 PM


Darwinism doesn't say this.
It doesn't literally say it, no. It implies it logically.
I can as easily concieve a cruel god as I can conceive a good god. Why can't you?
I've been trying to figure that out. I think there's something self-contradictory about the phrase "cruel God." When someone says, "God is cruel," it really means that they don't believe in God.
Despite my demonstrating to you the fundamental difference in terminology you are using. You refer to COMMON ANCESTRY, not ToE. ToE is an explanatory framework for describing population change. Common ancestry says that all organisms share a common ancestor.
In that case, I'm throwing in common ancestry. That's what I mean.

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robinrohan
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Message 291 of 301 (284468)
02-06-2006 6:20 PM
Reply to: Message 290 by crashfrog
02-06-2006 5:59 PM


We don't have it under anything else, either.
We would have one, maybe, if we were made by God. Evolution shows us there is no God. It's the most powerful evidence there is that there is no God.

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robinrohan
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Message 292 of 301 (284471)
02-06-2006 6:28 PM
Reply to: Message 289 by macaroniandcheese
02-06-2006 5:58 PM


we have the purpose of surviving and procreating and exploring and naming.
OK, Brennakimi, you go around and do your naming and I'll do something else. I am interested in getting rid of all mountains and hills. I prefer flat land. So I'm going to work on that, and when I come to the end of my life, I can die satisfied that I have done my duty. Of course, I will not get rid of all the mountains, but I will have made a start, and then the generations that follow me can carry on this mighty endeavor.

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robinrohan
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Message 294 of 301 (284475)
02-06-2006 6:36 PM
Reply to: Message 293 by macaroniandcheese
02-06-2006 6:33 PM


All purposes are equally arbitrary.

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robinrohan
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Message 296 of 301 (284478)
02-06-2006 6:48 PM
Reply to: Message 295 by macaroniandcheese
02-06-2006 6:40 PM


faith may or may not.
I meant all Subjective purposes are arbitrary.
Faith thinks she and everybody else do have an objective purpose.

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robinrohan
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Message 298 of 301 (284482)
02-06-2006 7:01 PM
Reply to: Message 297 by nwr
02-06-2006 6:55 PM


We evolved as members of a social species. As such, our purpose is to support the society.
I don't have much love for my fellow man when considered en masse. I reject that purpose.

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