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If you have the the time and interest, compare this text with The Kalam Cosmological Argument.
Like the piece you drew me to, this article suggests that one of two things is the standard for judging actual human experience. Either that there is (1) a systematic rule of order that governs the universe, which is eternal in nature; or (2) some random natural cause (a self-contradicton in terms right there) that somehow produces everything productive in human order, personal or social, by pure chance, which somehow, in some unexplicated way (where is the evidence???) evolves into something meaningful in terms of human personal order. That is to say, the natural and constitutional order of living, free American citizens in general.
Which puts hypothesis (2) in conflict with hypothesis (1); but hypothesis (2) needs hypothesis (1) in order to find the ground on which it itself can logically stand.
That seems to be the very thing that the "scientistic, proselytizing types out there" seem to missing in their analyses. Indeed, this particular omission seems to be quite deliberate.
What this omission portends: Man is nothing more than his material body. And all of living Nature similarly reduces to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Especially including Man.
To me, such folks qualify as certifiably insane.
The problem is, modern American society evidently doesn't have a clue what to do about insane people. Indeed, many of them seem to occupy very highest status in the current so-called "government"....
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