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To: Rockingham
No, I was pointing out that the degree to which someone aids another in a rural or religious community vs. in a tony suburb has no more to do with evolution than does the degree of medical care one can expect in Guatemala vs. that in Baltimore.

In other words, the fact that people in rural communities are nice and disbelieve evolution creates a false association that they are nice because they disbelieve evolution. That is no more true than it is to say that hospitals are bad in Guatemala because they disbelieve evolution. That is clearly false. The hospitals are bad there because they are a poor country. That they disbelieve evolution is irrelevant, as it is to the question of whether someone will help another.

882 posted on 08/02/2005 8:44:18 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash
That is correct. And to return to my original point, other things being equal, faithful communities have more of what Burke called "the unbought grace of life."
964 posted on 08/02/2005 2:47:05 PM PDT by Rockingham
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