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To: waxhaw
If there is no God and evolution is a fact, doesn't that make Hitler right on the mark in his undertakings to build the perfect race? If there's no God, I guess it makes him niether right nor wrong. If we suppose evolution is fact and God does not exsist, the only thing that really made what Hitler did wrong would be the people that took exception to it because it threatened their continued exsistance.

Personally, the things that Hitler did are wrong on so many more levels other than my self interest in survival, but I guess that's because I still have a CONSCIENCE!!! I'm sorry you don't.

213 posted on 06/17/2002 8:30:51 AM PDT by mconder
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To: mconder
If there is no God and evolution is a fact, doesn't that make Hitler right on the mark in his undertakings to build the perfect race?

While you clarified your position on this issue, I should point out that such an argument has actually been presented by some Creationists as though it has any merit. Of course, in addition to being inaccurate (it would make Hitler neither right nor wrong) it appeals to the logical fallacy of arguing the consequences rather than the merits.
219 posted on 06/17/2002 8:36:48 AM PDT by Dimensio
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To: mconder
If we suppose evolution is fact and God does not exsist, the only thing that really made what Hitler did wrong would be the people that took exception to it because it threatened their continued exsistance.

In fact the existance or lack of God did not prevent Hitler. So the only question we have to answer is by what right we resisted Hitler. Since self-preservation is inherent in existance, we knew everything we needed to know about Hitler without refering to scripture.

Scripture was redundant to our natural impulses at self-defense. Scripture didn't prevent Hitler and it didn't give us answers about how to deal with him that we couldn't arrive at independently.

So what was your point?

220 posted on 06/17/2002 8:38:27 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: mconder
If there's no God, I guess it makes him niether right nor wrong.

Right! Rightness and wrongness can only come from something higher (unless they are totally arbitrary). That's one reason many people believe in God.

617 posted on 06/17/2002 2:30:44 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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