Posted on 05/25/2005 3:41:22 AM PDT by billorites
But I confess, I skirted very close to the line! =)
"Festival of Beautiful as they are Brilliant Anti-Evos" placemarker
Thanks for the pointers, From many - one. However, I distinctly recall the myth in question has a middle Eastern (Fertile Crescent) origin. Of course, this is from my reading of several decades ago. My memory may be "off"; but this is the sort of story I just "naturally" remember.... Will try to find you a cite.
Well that is a comfort, Doc. But I still think you're trying to change the subject. :^)
PS. And if you must know, what I really committed in that post was a style-over-substance fallacy. I almost always respond to style-over-substance fallacies with equivalent fallacy, because they seriously annoy me.
I'm told by the highest authorities that turtles are unexplained by evolution. A creation story that explains the existence of turtles is therefor superior to evolution.
Thanks, I'd be interested.
:-)
Maybe they're unexplained by evolution because it's turtles all the way down?
Oh yeah, plenty of context. And again he does not say that we would ban religion. There are many harmful things I'd like stamped out too but I would not ban them. For example, I dare say 99% of FR posters would like to see leftwing media bias stamped out (as do I) but would not ban it.
"Qua religion, no—in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason."
- Ayn Rand
It doesn't matter what the man actually said.
All that matters is jwalsh07's opinion.
I remember it. I also seem to remember that diamond dropped the ball on round 2.
It depends entirely on the objects in question. And with respect to living organisms, I don't claim that any wild specimen was designed.
You don't say...
I've asked for a textbook source that documents exactly where the fossils have been found, along with their condition and exact position relative to the physical, geoloic column.
So NOW you're going to follow links? How convenient for you.
Every Fossil Ever Found
It is also a shame that the same people who publish their findings do not list from the get go what assmptions they've made in interpreting the evidence.
It's also a shame you can't do basic research before you post.
A better link than the one above: Paleontology Journals
Very funny. And to the point. By the way, what was the point?
Interesting take since Dawkins uses the analogy of the smallpox virus. Neither rational nor believable but interesting Ed.
Hey, sorry for my testiness earlier. I'm just in an overall bad mood and got slightly ticked off by your post for no apparent rhyme or reason!
To my knowledge Ayn Rand never advocated society preempting parents from exercising their first amendment rights.
Richard Dawkins: “Society, for no reason that I can discern, accepts that parents must have an automatic right to bring their children up with particular religious opinions and can withdraw them from say, biology classes that teach evolution.”
Also to my knowledge, Rand has never stated that religion should be stamped out like the smallpox virus.
Dawkins: Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.
Am I wrong about that?
Thanks. :-}
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