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“As an Evolutionist, you won’t mind if my stronger organism sqeezes your neck until your biological processes cease. Because, of course, science has nothing to say about that, except that my strenth trumps your weakness. Right?”

Good post. Heck, what difference does it make if we're all just a conglomeration of chemicals? If my young and strong conglomeration pounds the cytoplasm out of your old and weak conglomeration, it's actually a good thing because it helps the species evolve into something stronger. Right?

That's why, when you come down to it, atheism always leads to mass killings in the name of the greater good.

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Science, Religion, and the Human Future
Leon R. Kass
April 2007

Abstract –
Western civilization would not be West- ern civilization were it not for biblical religion, which reveres and trusts in the one God, Who has made known what He wants of human beings through what is called His revelation—that is, through Scripture. Western civilization would not be Western civilization were it not also for science, which extols and trusts in human reason to disclose the workings of nature and to use the knowledge gained to improve human life. These twin sources of Western civilization—religion and science (or, before science, philosophy), divine revelation and human reason—are, to say the least, not easily harmonized. One might even say that Western civilization would not be Western civilization without the continuing dialectical tension between the claims and demands of biblical religion and the cultivation of autonomous human reason.

Note: this abstract was auto-generated and may contain errors.

About the Author
Leon R. Kass, the Hertog fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, served from 2001 through 2005 as chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. In somewhat different form, this essay will appear in a volume on religion and the American future to be published later this year by the American Enterprise Institute.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10861