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A Darwinist Mob Goes After a Serious Philosopher
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| 3/8/13
| LEON WIESELTIER
Posted on 03/24/2013 8:51:28 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Almost taunting the materialist left, which teaches skepticism but not self-skepticismClassic.
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posted on
03/24/2013 8:51:28 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
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posted on
03/24/2013 8:53:59 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
The God haters are not very tolerant.
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posted on
03/24/2013 8:57:12 AM PDT
by
Lets Roll NOW
(A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
To: dirtboy
Modern philosophy is an intellectual desert. Postmodernism has been deconstructed to the point of empty parlor room word games.
I used to think that Postmodernism might be fading away, but what could come after such vapidness?
Maybe this is the start of a new beginning.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:01:57 AM PDT
by
Shadow44
To: dirtboy
To: dirtboy
The clay became man at the moment in which a being for the first time was capable of forming, however dimly, the thought of “God”. The first Thou thathowever stammeringlywas said by human lips to God marks the moment in which the spirit arose in the world. Here the Rubicon of anthropogenesis was crossed. For it is not the use of weapons or fire, not new methods of cruelty or of useful activity, that constitute man, but rather his ability to be immediately in relation to God. This holds fast to the doctrine of the special creation of man ... herein ... lies the reason why the moment of anthropogenesis cannot possibly be determined by paleontology: anthropogenesis is the rise of the spirit, which cannot be excavated with a shovel. The theory of evolution does not invalidate the faith, nor does it corroborate it. But it does challenge the faith to understand itself more profoundly and thus to help man to understand himself and to become increasingly what he is: the being who is supposed to say Thou to God in eternity. Joseph Ratzinger
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:06:31 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: dirtboy
the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false Absolutely! However, if the materialism is true there would be no way to know that it is true because Reason would then be invalid and merely the epiphenomenon of blind irrational forces i.e chemical reactions, eletromagnetic waves etc. Reason, in order to be valid, MUST be independent of nature. This was very clearly explained in C.S. Lewis's book "Miracles."
Clear thinking Atheists know this but just cannot give up on Atheism regardless of its glaring, in your face, falsity. So they throw tantrums instead.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:06:48 AM PDT
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HerrBlucher
(Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
To: dirtboy
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:10:30 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: HerrBlucher
HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)Amen to your tagline. Seems apropos on this thread. Let the materialists argue among themselves. It "matters" not. Dust to dust.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:14:52 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Liberalism: knowing you're better than everyone else because of your humility. -- Daniel Greenfield)
To: dirtboy
Almost taunting the materialist left, which teaches skepticism but not self-skepticism Classic.
Yep - just as "An unexamined life is not worth living" displays how worthless the Left is - they examine everyone but themselves.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:21:39 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: dirtboy
A mob is indeed forming, a mob of materialists To be a materialist, one has to believe that
1) omething came from nothing
2) natural law, symmetry, order, and beauty came from primordial disorder
3) organization came from utterly random primordial disorganization
4) consciousness,free will, and reason came from matter
5) life came from from non-life or inanimate chemicals
6) anthrropic coninidences came from chance
7) man, from pond scum
8) human knowledge and human values came from a universe without absolutes and without absolute truth
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:23:13 AM PDT
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Fightin Whitey
To: Vaquero
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:38:04 AM PDT
by
22cal
(Forgiven, not perfected)
To: dirtboy
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:41:13 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: HerrBlucher
Absolutely! However, if the materialism is true there would be no way to know that it is true because Reason would then be invalid and merely the epiphenomenon of blind irrational forces i.e chemical reactions, eletromagnetic waves etc. Reason, in order to be valid, MUST be independent of nature. Ditto bump
To: HerrBlucher
Thanks for posting the source of the materialism vs. reason paradox.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:47:10 AM PDT
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Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: Vaquero
Thank you for posting that on this fine Palm Sunday morning up here in Alaska.
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posted on
03/24/2013 9:49:34 AM PDT
by
redpoll
To: mjp
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posted on
03/24/2013 10:21:52 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: dirtboy
it is always thrilling to watch the left become unhinged over something. there is so much to learn by watching them! any astute watcher would realize just how narrow-minded and close-minded they really are. they have memorized their talking points and beyond that, there is no reasoning to be done, so they mock, denigrate, profane, and retaliate against the supposed offender. we should encourage the ‘mocked’ to just step back and let the left carry on. what they accidentally do, is to cause some to wake up to reality.
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posted on
03/24/2013 10:21:55 AM PDT
by
Shery
(in APO Land)
To: Vaquero
Should be a Doctor of the Church someday. Totally unappreciated by the modern world. His writings are brilliant.
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posted on
03/24/2013 10:44:20 AM PDT
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SMCC1
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