To: GodGunsGuts
The minute I see religion, new religion, etc. I see another pocket picker who wants to control my life, my money and my well being ...
2 posted on
11/10/2009 2:58:33 PM PST by
fujimoh
To: GodGunsGuts
"The materialist who debunks everyone else’s ideas as the subrational products of their brain chemistry or environment cannot avoid being debunked himself. If he is honest, says C.S. Lewis, the materialist will have to admit that his own ideas are merely the “epiphe-nomenon which accompanies chemical or electrical events in a cortex which is itself the by-product of a blind evolutionary process.” If all thoughts are merely the products of non-rational causes, this includes the materialist’s own thoughts. In other words, there is no reason according to materialism for materialism itself to be regarded as true.
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To: GodGunsGuts
Why are you in the Religion forum?
11 posted on
11/10/2009 8:57:02 PM PST by
ColdWater
("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
To: GodGunsGuts
Religions evolve just as living and non-living entities evolve.
A good reference for that is in Will Durant’s “The Story of Civilizaation,” volume 1.
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