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To: Westbrook

I doubt very seriously that what I posted precisely matches your views on evolution. I'm sure you didn't intend to make the mistake you made in your response to me. Or do you really mean to say that evolution is a VALID "religious" point of view? (I'll leave aside the fact that it isn't a religion at all.)


111 posted on 02/23/2007 6:51:54 PM PST by Wolfstar ("A nation that hates its Horatios is already in grave danger of losing its soul." Dr. Jack Wheeler)
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To: Wolfstar
You're right.

I answered in haste.

I do not consider Evolution as a valid point of view.

However, it has taken on many of the trappings of a fanatical religion. It is a materialist, anti-God religion. The "Theistic Evolutionists" are its Dhimmies.

Its most zealous adherents behave just like the Left. When they are caught in a false prediction, or if they are called to task on some of their more illogical, even irrational, assumptions and practices, they respond with schoolyard name calling, reductio ad absurdum, and character assassination. Just like the Left.

My personal observation is that a large part of the Evolutionist community, at least a large part of the VISIBLE Evolutionist communty, is Bolshevik in nature and tact. Unbelievers, heretics and converts to the other side are openly persecuted, censured, and CENSORED.

Neither Evolutionism, nor Environmentalism, nor Communism provide a milieu conducive to the fair exchange of ideas that exist outside predetermined sets of beliefs pertinent to their respective ideologies.

Rather than entertain the idea that the other side has any valid points to consider and address, the most common response of the Evolutionist-Environmentalist-Leftist zealot is to deny that their opponents have any valid points to consider. Instead, they dismiss their opponents as brainless morons, shouting them down with silly slogans, schoolyard name-calling, silly pictures, and reductio ad absurdum argument.

Here is some reductio ad absurdum for you. By the way, I have had evolutionists say to me that these points are pretty much congruent to their worldview.

  1. Everything came out of Nothing from Nowhere for no Reason.
  2. Life is a curious side-effect of an unknowing, uncaring Cosmos.
  3. When we die we are just so much compost.
  4. The best you can hope for is a life of self-gratification and a painless extinction.

Nice.

In another day and age, we would call it Nihilism and Hedonism.

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123 posted on 02/23/2007 8:19:50 PM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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