Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Evolutionary theory, rooted in the universal human dissatisfaction for mortality is a vain search for human origin(s), an attempt to rationalize a yearning for connection to something eternal.

LOL, that is the most severe case of projection I've seen in days!

<sigh> Look. You and me, and probably every one of us, wishes we could have an infinitely long life. We all deeply mourn the loss of our loved ones who went before us, and mourn before-the-fact our own eventual deaths. But some of us aren't able or willing to abandon the plain facts before us just so we can believe a comforting myth that makes all our fears go away.

You can try to wish away death, and maybe you'll be successful at it. But why not simply focus on embracing life instead?

BTW, evolution per se has nothing to do with my atheism. Evolution would make perfect sense as the kind of feature of a universe that had the capacity to surprise & delight an omniscient (& therefore bored) God.

242 posted on 10/23/2005 4:33:13 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]


To: jennyp
BTW, evolution per se has nothing to do with my atheism.

It doesn't have annything to do with mine either, but I do see it as fair game for attack:

#1. nothing is sacred;

#2. the creationists vote and I genuinely hate the Marxists, certainly more than the religionists do (I do not see hate, greed or killing as being “sins”);

#3. I don't see any reason as to why evolution is the only theory that has such exalted status in education or how the federal government (including the courts) have any say so in the matter.

#4. I also view some of these critics of the religionists as enemies (you have not done or said anything to be included in that - yet). Many of them have the only purpose of being here to subvert my political objectives.

And when I say enemies, I mean the type I have encountered on a real battlefield, not in some mealy-mouthed courtroom with tassle shoed lawyers or sheltered, weakling university professors and television talking heads.

Now, as far as evolution is concerned, I see life through a prism of warfare. A lot of these chumps really wouldn't make the natural selection cut with with guys like me around if they didn't have some of those godist, religionist, bible thumping types manning their armies to protect them.

I'll stick with my comrades at arms because I know I can count on them. These other guys, I can count on them for nothing, except maybe a stab in the back...

249 posted on 10/23/2005 7:23:38 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 242 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson