[MineralMan]

I hate to mention this, Lindykim, but the link for this does not go to the newspaper, but to a user page on some internet host.

I'm just wondering why. Was this article in a newspaper? If so, why did you not link to the newspaper?

[Rocky]

Excellent piece. I admire your courage. There are few people who are more abusive than the pro-evolution crowd, so you have to have a thick skin to write something like that. Michael Moore is a pauper compared with that bunch. But I think you are exactly right about the effects of Darwinism, and its true source. No philosophy or religion has ever done as much damage to man's psyche, or his respect for his fellow man, as Darwinism has.

[bondserv]

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[balrog666]

So many mistakes, so much ignorance, so much fear - what a complete and utter waste of the written word.

[betty boop]

"Many have resisted, and will continue to resist, the epistemic authority of science, since it requires we abandon those beloved conceptions of freedom, dignity, and moral agency and responsibility in which persons are understood to be causally privileged over the rest of nature…science proposes naturalized…conceptions of freedom, and responsibility which embed persons…fully within the causal network"

Personally, I don't resist the epistemic authority of science operating in its proper field. That is not the same thing as saying that all of reality reduces to that authority. Science treats of "physical" things. Period. The other branch of the epistemic divide treats of spiritual things -- things of vital importance to man like language, history, the arts, philosophy, theology, and so forth. Science has zero purchase there. Yet scientistic ideologues claim that, since science can't deal with such things owing to its own methodological limitations, such things must not exist.

This is a tremendous leap of faith (or counter-faith) on their part -- a leap that extinguishes all that is of utmost value to human kind, and what makes man distinctive.

Meanwhile, man stubbornly continues to be what he is: "psyche in soma," an embodied spiritual being.

Screwtape does have a sense of humor after all. But I don't have to appreciate his "little jokes."

Fine article, Lindykim. Thanks ever so much for posting it.

[little jeremiah]

I often ping out Linda Kimball's articles; haven't read this one yet. Might want to check it out. Does look as tho it's turning into a evofundies bash God believers party, though.

[JCEccles]

Powerful essay. Thank you for posting it.

[MillerCreek]

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