[the invisib1e hand]

yeah but the Catholic church “has no problem” with it.

[spirited irish]

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[Beowulf9]

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[Sans-Culotte]

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[Moonman62]

Just what is Darwinism anyway?

It's an explanation for how God created life, if you believe God created everything.

[pnh102]

Shouldn’t it be made clear that evolution does NOT explain the origins of life, and there is NO scientific explanation for what created life.

[Stultis]

This is very badly written. I got a third to half way through before trying to follow the disjointed, to non-existent, train of argument became too painful. My embarrassment for the author was equally painful.

When you finally get to the thesis suggested by the title -- that "Darwinism" supposedly has something to do with "Gnosticism" -- incoherency melds with sheer stupidity. The cited authority thinks Darwinism has to do not only with "living things creat[ing] themselves," but even with the "origin of being" itself! In fact darwinian evolution isn't even concerned with the origin of life (let alone "being") but merely how living things change over time.

Even though all antievolution arguments are (IMHO) ultimately flawed, because false, there are far better efforts. Don't waste your time with this mess.

[count-your-change]

“Just what is Darwinism anyway?”

Fraud, wishful thinking. Imaginary constructions like Ardi.

[RoadTest]

“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”- Psalm 14:1

So - they have their big celebration April 1st.

[little jeremiah]

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Another triple play by Linda Kimball. It is clear that there are two religions of the world:

1. Belief in the Supreme Being, Lord of all, who created everything in existence, both within our perception and experience and beyond our perception. Serving Him in eternity is the goal of life, and we are eternal souls. Perfect happiness cannot be found denying His existence and trying to enjoy separate from His will and love but is only found by serving Him in obedience and love.

2. There is no God, matter is all, humans are mere collections of chemicals, sacks of meat, and there is no Supreme Authority, Intelligence, Will or design. Each person can "create" his own reality.

The second is as much a "religion" as the first in the sense of "religion" meaning a world view or system of belief. An interesting factor of leading adherents of the second religion - the worship of mammon, or in Sanskrit "maya" - illusion, or "that which is not" - is that they are fuelled by the strong desire to dominate everything and everyone, find no problem in lying to achieve this dominance, and love Death. Their foundation is utter rebellion against the very idea of God.

I would posit that there is an ancient history of theism in India, and that many of the same truths expressed in the Bible are expressed in the ancient Vedas. But the main point is that belief in God is one one side, and hatred of Him fuelling disbelief is on the other side. And if one refuses to believe in Him, upon what does such a person place belief? Why, on one's own mind and desires.

"I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about life, including everything about the human mind." (The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith, Peter Hitchens, pp. 149-150)

[Salman]

More Christian blood-libel. You people have no shame.

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[aruanan]

Mockers and scoffers abound, scornfully accusing the faithful of believing in “an invisible being in the sky and that a dead guy from 2000 years ago is coming back soon…instead of believing in reality,” as one scofflaw said recently.

Note to Linda: Your writing would be much improved if you didn't misuse words such as "scofflaw." "Scofflaw" isn't a synonym of "scoffer." And, geez, turn down the purple prose. It doesn't advance your spin on someone else's thesis.

[count-your-change]

I always enjoy the comment made about Darwinism not being concerned with the origin of life but only what occurs afterward.
Imagine trying to tell the story of someone’s life and not saying anything about their age or place of birth or anything about their parents or lineage. In fact it would be like saying the person was found an orphan.