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To: navyguy
worldview: a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.

Physical evolution is a fact. But it doesn’t mean that we must abandon religion or that it in any way violates religion.

What part of evolution is fact? Is it this from a college textbook?

Darwin showed that material causes are a sufficient explanation not only for physical phenomena, as Descartes and Newton had shown, but also for biological phenomena with all their seeming evidence of design and purpose. By coupling undirected, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes superfluous. Together with Marx's materialistic theory of history and society and Freud's attribution of human behavior to influences over which we have little control, Darwin's theory of evolution was a crucial plank in the platform of mechanism and materialism…
-Douglas Futuyma's Evolutionary Biology, p. 5
Is it this ‘fact’ from a professor Provine, an American historian of science and of evolutionary biology and population genetics?

Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly.
1) No gods worth having exist.
2) No life after death exists.
3) No ultimate foundation for ethics exists.
4) No ultimate meaning in life exists.
5) Human free will is nonexistent.
- William Provine (from Darwin Day speech)

Or again, this fact from Chuck ‘freakin’ Darwin?
If, for instance, to take an extreme case, men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering.
- Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, and Selection in Regard to Sex
Beyond this, please produce the rigid mathematical basis for this ‘fact’ so we will have some falsification criteria for this series of mindless mistakes that created all life willy-nilly.
82 posted on 03/10/2015 2:28:00 PM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse OÂ’Leary)
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To: Heartlander
Why not just boil it down to:

"If evolution happened then there is no God, because they can't both be true."

83 posted on 03/10/2015 4:16:04 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Heartlander

“What part of evolution is fact?”

There is no amount of physical evidence that will sway you. Seen it a million times.

I’m all done with you.


94 posted on 03/11/2015 9:20:39 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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