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To: Diamond
"Darwinism offers no basis for condemning either Hitler's fevered imagination or what he actually did to millions of people."

Evolution is a biological theory, not a moral theory. A theory of rights and morals is required to make such a determination.

"There is no "diabolical" in what was, if Darwinism were true, just another historical development of matter in motion."

Are you saying you're incapable of coming up with a theory of rights and morals, simply because a biological theory is true?

208 posted on 03/27/2010 12:33:20 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets
Evolution is a biological theory, not a moral theory. A theory of rights and morals is required to make such a determination.

Tell that to Michael Ruse, the author of the article. The title of the thread is God is dead. Long live morality (Evolutionist says Morality is fashioned by natural selection).

In the article atheist Michael Ruse asserts that morality is something forged in the struggle for existence and reproduction, something fashioned by natural selection.

One of the problems with this view is that morality is prescriptive, not merely descriptive. It tells us not just what we did, but what we ought to have done in the past, and what we ought to do in the future. That is something can’t even, in principle, be explained by any evolutionary materialistic system because nothing about my biology can impose on me any incumbency to act a certain way for moral reasons in the future. It doesn’t tell me why I should be good tomorrow. Ruse admits as much right off the bat by answering the question of why should I be good tomorrow with, "there are no grounds whatsoever for being good." He then spends the rest of the article trying to smuggle morality in through the back door.

Cordially,

209 posted on 03/27/2010 3:30:05 PM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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