[betty boop]

My genes give me illusions? I wonder how exactly that works.

It's a catchy phrase. But the people who use it cannot explain how genes give us illusions. But the simple assertion is enough for them. If you disagree with it, you are what Dawkins/Dennett call a "dim." (They consider themselves shining examples of the "bright.") Maybe there's even something evil about you for not thinking as they tell you to think.

This article, and the type of thinking it exemplifies, is nothing but a great big con job....

[xzins]

bright

Sorry, but the term is already taken.

• Revelation 19:8 NIV - Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."

• Revelation 22:16 NIV - "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."

[trisham]

But the simple assertion is enough for them. If you disagree with it, you are what Dawkins/Dennett call a "dim." (They consider themselves shining examples of the "bright.") Maybe there's even something evil about you for not thinking as they tell you to think.

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That sounds a lot like what liberals think of conservatives.

[kosta50]

But the people who use it cannot explain how genes give us illusions

How is that different from Bible tales? It seems to me that people just have a "need" to make up things as they go along instead of just accepting what they don't know and leave it as what it is, a mystery free from qualifications or "explanations" based on fancy.

Every society has a concept of the right and wrong; their own brand of morality. In all societies, restrictions to conduct, and punishment based on misconduct, serve to protects the community. There is nothing "holy" about the moral code except that adding "holiness" to it gives it more "umf." Whether the "lord" who pontificates it is the one imagined in the sky or on the ground, it's the way a community survives.

[metmom]

For evos who like to try to divorce themselves from philosophy, they sure don’t have much trouble engaging in it when it suits their purposes.

[Alamo-Girl]

It's a catchy phrase. But the people who use it cannot explain how genes give us illusions. But the simple assertion is enough for them. If you disagree with it, you are what Dawkins/Dennett call a "dim."

Yes indeed. The atheists always have a "just so" story which they accept on faith and demand others accept on their say-so.

Thank you so much for all of your insights, dearest sister in Christ!