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"The atheists at the Center for Inquiry have a problem. The scientists behind evolution have no basis for morality or the so-called good or meaningful life."
1 posted on 03/08/2011 10:13:35 AM PST by topcat54
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Huh. I thought natural selection made us better; you know, evolve.
2 posted on 03/08/2011 10:17:22 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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The headline makes no sense.


5 posted on 03/08/2011 10:23:14 AM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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Reminds me of when the Protestants of Europe deliberated over whether or not they should defend themselves against the Muslim hordes, should they invade. After much soul and scriptural searching, they concluded that they should. I wish liberals could come to the same conclusion.


7 posted on 03/08/2011 10:25:40 AM PST by pallis
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Here is the key line.
“If you want this planet to continue to be habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants.”
A Nobel Prize winner at an American university. Folks, this is how the Nazis thought. You can’t get any clearer about the liberal/Democrat/socialist/environmentalist mindset. They should live, while everyone who disagrees with them should die. “No..he’s just saying that it would be better if it were that way.” So did Hitler, and then he did something about it.


9 posted on 03/08/2011 10:40:56 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer.")
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“You don’t need God—to hope, to care, to love, to live.”

It certainly helps. Nevertheless, an athiest could choose to “care.” The real difference is you do need God to have a reason not to kill that guy down the street for his money, as long as you think you can get away with it. Without God, all choices are equally moral. An athiest who chooses to “care” or to “promote drum circles” or to “murder all conservatives” has only personal preference to inform his choice. He has no moral basis to interfere with the choice of another athiest who is about to kill him, only personal preference.


11 posted on 03/08/2011 10:42:41 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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I'm a bit confused.

Supposedly, natural selection, adapting to changing environments, and evolution was what allowed species to modify itself to better deal with its environment.

Now that the environment has changed to make different characteristics important than those that were historically valuable, shouldn't natural selection and evolution take us in a new direction to better adapt to this new environment?

Just because the environment has changed, does that nullify the “goodness” of natural selection?

There seems to be a severe disconnect (more than normal) in their thought processes.

13 posted on 03/08/2011 10:44:48 AM PST by Egon (The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
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Hasn’t this guy really just established that man,left to his own devices, is fallen and destined to die? Those of us who have never had a grant for research, but did have a Bible around the house, could have told him that.

What he is saying is that humanity needs a God, needs to be saved.

He just doesn’t realize that.


15 posted on 03/08/2011 10:49:12 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Yet another fascist arguing for eugenics pogroms. At least since the book, “Beyond Freedom and Dignity” came out most government social workers have been to many seminars where the eugenics agenda is just barely beneath the surface. They’re indoctrinated with the idea that as social workers they’re special, wonderful, and selfless folks who can’t achieve the results they want due to silly and outmoded ideas about individual freedom and human dignity.

Fifty years of brainwashing as education has already dumbed the population down to the point that someone like Barry could be elected president. So, it’s obvious that unless the democrat fascist infrastructure is finally and totally torn down within the next few years they’re going to not just ignore, but totally eliminate the Constitution the next time they have a majority in Congress and a democrat president. Anyone who still doesn’t realize that the democrat party is nothing but a child of the lethal thirties fascists is deliberately hiding from reality.

JMHO

Regards


17 posted on 03/08/2011 11:34:23 AM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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Murder is an ethical category found in the Christian tradition

Huh? Is this guy seriously asserting that nobody had any problem with murder prior to the time of Christ??

18 posted on 03/08/2011 11:39:16 AM PST by cycleoflife
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"The scientists behind evolution have no basis for morality or the so-called good or meaningful life"

Sure they do, or so they say...

“For a justification of our moral code we no longer have to have recourse to theological revelation, or to a metaphysical Absolute; Freud in combination with Darwin suffice to give us our philosophic vision.” — Julian Huxley, Philosophy in a World at War.

22 posted on 03/19/2011 5:40:06 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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