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To: FreedomProtector; Alamo-Girl; YHAOS; hosepipe; .30Carbine
If the brain of Dawkins was programmed by a "blind watchmaker" [title of a book by Dawkins] why should he trust it?

Exactly, FreedomProtector! More to the point, why should we trust it?

As Eric Voegelin observed, a universe that contains intelligent beings cannot have a less-than-intelligent (e.g., "blind") cause.

Thanks so much for writing!

215 posted on 10/27/2006 8:10:33 AM PDT by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: betty boop

So very true. Thank you for your insights!


216 posted on 10/27/2006 9:02:09 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: betty boop; .30Carbine; Alamo-Girl; YHAOS; hosepipe; Quix; editor-surveyor; SoldierDad
More to the point, why should we trust it?

The brain of Dawkins may have been programmed by chance [hence the label which I believe is permitted for this particular 'technical' case], but my brain certainly was not.
217 posted on 10/27/2006 10:51:46 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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The Church of the Non-Believers (Happy Halloween from Darwinism)

It seems that the truth is actually that there is ‘no’ separation from evolution and the next logical step that is currently preached; the ‘meme’, altruism, and social Darwinism. Science is now boldly preaching our ethics and morality originate from ‘evolution’ while stating that rejecting any part of this is due to silly religious superstition. Does anyone now doubt that there is a difference between evolution/Darwinism and any other scientific theory?

I for one think that it is good that this is now coming to light for those who did not see it or decided to ignore. It is humorous in a sad way as we are now witness the ‘witnessing’ of the new ordained preachers of fundamental science from the books of naturalism affirming their contradictory non-belief - - - Morals, ethics, and consciousness per ‘their’ science via Darwinism, now ultimately originates from mindlessness.

They have excluded any telic or theological ideals from science due to the ironic naturalistic dogmatism that they hold in science while pointing to the historical dogmatism of that which they exclude. If they now choose to engage a playing field, which is again ironically off limits to science due to Darwinism, than I welcome this new discourse. We can now look at ‘evolution’ as a whole and remove the philosophy that has been attributed to this scientific theory.

226 posted on 10/27/2006 3:04:38 PM PDT by Heartlander
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