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Evolution and Specialness of Humanity

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10-08-2005 11:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 70 by joshua221
10-07-2005 9:34 PM

Re: does evolution dictate how we live/ what we live for?
prophex writes:
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Purpose in life, does not exist given the backround of evolution. Can't you see how insigniificant humanity is as a result of totally random, and totally unfeeling events towards our lives? We are a species that within evolution needs no purpose, and needs no God.
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You assume that evolution is totally random. Evolution is just a theory about what happened. The theory, in and of itself, does not say why it happened. The theory is that we evolved through a series of genetic mutations, (at least as I understand it), but it does not tell us why the genetic mutations occurred. You can believe that these genetic mutations occurred randomly or you can believe that a creator caused the mutations. Either position is outside of the realm of science.
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Assuming that the theory of evolution is correct it can then just become part of the creation story. Incidentally, as near as I can tell Darwinism deals with how we developed physically. Our ability to love or hate, to rejoice and grieve etc is something else again.
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Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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