randman writes:
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my point on amorality is that there are no absolute morals for Darwinism.
That's because Darwinism is a piece of science, not philosophy.
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Absent of God, man makes up his own morals as he sees fit, and if he thinks it's fit to artificially select humanity's progress, who is to say he is wrong?
Two problems:
1) The direct answer is "man." Just because we're the ones making the rules doesn't mean the rules don't exist.
We're back to the Monopoly example. Monopoly is a completely man-made game. And yet, there are rules. You break them, you get punished. There are even "house rules." A common one is that all the money players have to pay when they draw a bad Chance or Community Chest card are placed under Free Parking. When you land on it, you get whatever money is there.
This rule has become so popular that it is now published in the official game as a variant.
Rules are rules no matter where they come from.
2) Nobody is an absolutist. Not even god. God breaks his own rules all the time. Christians certainly don't obey the rules laid out in the Bible.
"Absolute morality" is a fiction nobody engages in. Everyone is a relativist.
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I don't think it takes a genius to see how the Nazis drew inspiration from Darwinism.
Of course. But if you're going to claim that evolution is evil because of what the Nazis did, then you're going to have also claim that Christianity is evil because of what the Crusaders did.
See...there's that relativism coming up again....
Rrhain
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