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To: SeekAndFind; Alamo-Girl; Quix; metmom; xzins; TXnMA
The main emotional obstacles to accepting evolution are its apparent conflict with valued beliefs about God, souls, and morality. We draw on the philosophy of science and on a psychological theory of cognitive and emotional belief revision to make suggestions about what can be done to improve acceptance of Darwinian ideas.

YIKES, SeekAndFind! Humans have been so reduced on this view that they are just passive, machinelike objects that can be tinkered with to resolve "emotional obstacles" to the received truths of orthodox Darwinism.

I gather in order to preserve "the cornerstone of modern biology," not only God, but man himself, must be sacrificed....

Springer's been publishing a whole lot of junk lately, IMHO FWIW.

Thanks for the head's-up to the Thagard/Findlay piece SeekAndFind!

15 posted on 04/17/2010 1:43:23 PM PDT by betty boop (Nil desperandum.)
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To: betty boop

INDEED. THX.


16 posted on 04/17/2010 3:59:48 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: betty boop

Indeed. Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!


17 posted on 04/17/2010 9:11:51 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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