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To: Heartlander
Now consider this... If Darwin is correct

You're arguing from consequences. Has the TOE been used as justification for certain atrocities? Of course. But that's not an argument against whether the TOE is correct.

34 posted on 01/21/2009 1:19:42 PM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
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To: Citizen Blade
If the TOE is correct? Darwin directed his one long argument in the The Origin of Species against design and purpose (Paley) and the logical consequences followed. The ‘current’ TOE stipulates; no design, no purpose, no goal, and humans are just animals continuing to evolve.

Darwin showed that material causes are a sufficient explanation not only for physical phenomena, as Descartes and Newton had shown, but also for biological phenomena with all their seeming evidence of design and purpose. By coupling undirected, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes superfluous. Together with Marx's materialistic theory of history and society and Freud's attribution of human behavior to influences over which we have little control, Darwin's theory of evolution was a crucial plank in the platform of mechanism and materialism…
---Douglas Futuyma's Evolutionary Biology (1998, 3rd Ed., Sinauer Associates), p. 5

35 posted on 01/21/2009 1:53:20 PM PST by Heartlander
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