To: Dimensio
Just to clarify, Post #310 was mine, and I was not accusing anyone of being an atheist, a communist, or a bed-wetter.
I was merely pointing out that some pretty unwholesome characters latched onto evolution as sort of an addendum to their own agenda, whatever that might be. That's all in the past; we don't have to stay stuck in the 20th century, do we?
Now will one of you charming fellows answer a simple question: Aside from the question of whether or not Darwin was an atheist or a believer, if one accepts evolution as a working theory (or hypothesis), how does one tell right from wrong?
612 posted on
12/04/2005 1:11:52 PM PST by
Liberty Wins
(Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
To: Liberty Wins
Aside from the question of whether or not Darwin was an atheist or a believer, if one accepts evolution as a working theory (or hypothesis), how does one tell right from wrong?
I don't see evolution as having any bearing on how a person tells right from wrong. Some define morality for themselves, others believe that it is dictated by a divine agent, some think that it's some inherent property of the universe. Evolution doesn't play into it at all.
613 posted on
12/04/2005 1:13:07 PM PST by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: Liberty Wins
how does one tell right from wrong? How is this for a start?
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid). Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
616 posted on
12/04/2005 1:18:45 PM PST by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Liberty Wins
... if one accepts evolution as a working theory (or hypothesis), how does one tell right from wrong? ... if one accepts the theory of gravity as a working theory (or hypothesis), how does one tell right from wrong?
Or are you dishonestly equating evolution with atheism?
662 posted on
12/04/2005 2:33:49 PM PST by
balrog666
(A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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