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kuresu
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Message 1 of 30 (311418)
05-12-2006 12:56 PM


I was wondering how IDer's and Creo's handle fossils, particularly those that are in the Homo genus.
If we were intelligently designed, why would there be these fossils that are obviously failures (those species are now extinct).
If we were created by God, and we are all descended from Adam, then is Adam a H. sapiens or is he H. habilus or whichever Homo species is the oldest in the fossil record. And what is the implication of Adam being a H. habilus?

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kuresu
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From: boulder, colorado
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Message 21 of 30 (366006)
11-26-2006 12:12 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by Confidence
11-25-2006 8:04 PM


Re: ... whatever (and off-topic, so let's not continue this here)
you all don't really research alternative moral codes before you speak, do you all?
ever hear of utilitarianism? it is not dependent on God(s). what it says, in a nutshell, is this:
you have a man drowning. you have a rescue crew. if they rescue this man, they will all die (including the rescuee). which is better for society? That the rescue crew lives on to save others, or that they all perish, to never be able to help society again?
keep in mind that nutshells do have a way of getting something(s) wrong.
read up on John Stuart Mill, and read his essay on utilitarianism. oh, and as a good shocker, he argues in there that religious moral codes are actually based off of utilitarianism. figure that one out.
oh, and one last thing (I think).
God is not required for absolutes to exist. last I checked, God isn't required for math (unless you are arguing that Noah's flood did happen). Just for an example, mind you.
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