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To: BroJoeK; JimSEA

Oh, almost forgot my quote for today.

I’ll just repeat one for Jim’s benefit that I pasted upthread, since it comes from Gould, the scientist that made Jim’s life much simpler by giving him NOMA to feed B.S. to gullible Christians. We’ve gained much territory thanks to it; it’s a great tactic:

Natural selection [is] an immensely powerful idea with radical philosophical implications. . . . The radicalism of natural selection lies in its power to dethrone some of the deepest and most traditional comforts of Western thought, particularly the notion that nature’s benevolence, order, and good design, with humans at a sensible summit of power and excellence, proves the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent creator. . . . To these beliefs Darwinian natural selection presents the most contrary position imaginable. - Stephen Jay Gould


61 posted on 02/20/2016 8:09:16 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: angryoldfatman; JimSEA
angryoldfatman quoting Gould: "...nature's benevolence, order, and good design, with humans at a sensible summit of power and excellence, proves the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent creator. . .
To these beliefs Darwinian natural selection presents the most contrary position imaginable. -- Stephen Jay Gould"

But it's indisputable that humans are the Earth's apex predators & life form generally.
As to whether such natural order "proves" the existence of anything, or Anyone, supernatural, that's a matter of choice which Gould obviously answered negatively.

Many others see things differently.
So Gould here constructs yet another straw man, which our FRiend "angryoldfatman" gleefully, but unsuccessfully, tries to breath a breath of life into.

Didn't work the first time you used it, won't work the next time.
Is that all you got?

I repeat my advice: get professional help for your obvious emotional instabilities.

63 posted on 02/21/2016 6:07:45 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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