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To: jwalsh07
If there are moral absolutes then where did they come from?

Why do absolutes have to come from somewhere? Why can't they be natural? (that's what the writers of the Constitution thought.)

175 posted on 01/03/2003 7:18:07 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: xm177e2
Why can't they be natural? (that's what the writers of the Constitution thought.)

That is incorrect, the writers of the Constitution were mainly Christians with a smattering of deists and all penned their names to the Declaration of Independence acknowledging that rights were unalienable and granted by the "creator".

178 posted on 01/03/2003 7:21:32 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: xm177e2
Why do absolutes have to come from somewhere?

Well as I see it there are a few choices. Either they simply materialized out of thin air. Sort of like an ever expanding universe that came from nothing absent a catalyst.

Or it could be that moral absolutes simply assembled themselves like the monkey typing Shakespear on a computer given enough time.

Or they were God given. The only one that makes sense to me is the final one.

179 posted on 01/03/2003 7:26:03 PM PST by jwalsh07
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