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To: muir_redwoods
How about this?
Darwin showed that material causes are a sufficient explanation not only for physical phenomena, as Descartes and Newton had shown, but also for biological phenomena with all their seeming evidence of design and purpose. By coupling undirected, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes superfluous. Together with Marx's materialistic theory of history and society and Freud's attribution of human behavior to influences over which we have little control, Darwin's theory of evolution was a crucial plank in the platform of mechanism and materialism…
-Douglas Futuyma's Evolutionary Biology), p. 5

49 posted on 04/22/2016 6:13:05 PM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: Heartlander

well, how about that? It seems like an attempt to use the verifiable basis of Darwin’s work you support the discredited work of others.

Why don’t you tackle ERV’s and explain how the irrefutable evidence they provide that humans and chimps had a common ancestor isn’t so?


54 posted on 04/23/2016 3:06:12 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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