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To: woodb01
Then again, maybe evolution really IS the secular fundamentalist religious belief that the article posits.

Just because you view the world through the prism of religious fundamentalism doesn't mean that everyone else does. Your misapplication of religious terminology onto science only illustrates that you don't understand science.

33 posted on 08/16/2005 11:51:20 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: malakhi
I have been meaning to ask an atheist and evolutionist this question for a while and since I am here and you are here, here it goes.

Looking back at your posts, I am assuming that you are both an atheist and an evolutionist. If that is not correct, please forgive me. However, my question is based on those assumptions.

For the sake of this question, let's assume your position is true. Through some natural process life formed on earth and all the life we observe today developed over billions of years of evolution.

So my question is, why is it that you spend any time at all either defending your position or attacking alternative positions? Not just on evolution/creation but on any subject? In other words, why do you care?

The lion on the African plain is at the mercy of natural selection because it doesn't know any better. However, we do. In our case, the cat is out of the bag. Procreating in order to continue your line is actually pointless and serves no end because there is no end to serve. When it comes down to it, "survival of the fitness" may work well to "strengthen the herd", so to speak, but we both know such strengthening is really meaningless. Evolution may provide the process but it offers nothing in terms of purpose.

So, again, why do care about anything? All is vanity. I fail to see how existence is preferable to non-existence. How does one who is an atheist and an evolutionist not become a secular existentialist? Back to specifics, what do you hope to achieve by coming on FR and debating? Given that any such argument is ultimately completely meaningless, I wonder why you show up?

51 posted on 08/16/2005 12:10:14 PM PDT by Pete
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