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To: Stop Legal Plunder
These ideas aren't simple at all. They're profound. They certainly don't occur to animals. Yet evolutionists claim that our ancestors were animals. If that's so, then this allegedly basic morality must have evolved. If so, let's hear how. If evolution is correct, it shouldn't be that hard to postulate a reasonable account.

I just did. And, by the way, 'thou shalt not kill' and 'thou shalt not steal' have been so often ignored in the last century, I think it's a real stretch to claim they're any kind of innate human trait. People most certainly kill, often and for very trivial reasons. They steal like bandits. We can certainly propose mechanisms by which humans might have evolved an innate moral sense. Whether they in fact did evolve one is very much an open question.

282 posted on 05/07/2003 11:26:08 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
...by the way, 'thou shalt not kill' and 'thou shalt not steal' have been so often ignored in the last century, I think it's a real stretch to claim they're any kind of innate human trait.

The moral law is innate. But it's different from physical laws in that it can be disobeyed.

288 posted on 05/07/2003 11:30:00 AM PDT by Stop Legal Plunder ("When words are many, sin is not lacking." -- Proverbs 10:19a)
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