Re: We are Apes
From: Steve Schaffner (sfs_at_darwin.broad.mit.edu)
Date: 03/30/05
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Date: 29 Mar 2005 22:25:07 -0500
"jack" <macjazz@bigfoot.com> writes:
> Evolution isn't religion - there are no hymns, no churches, no holy
> books, no prophets, no proscribed or prescribed behavior...
>
> Yes, but there are presuppositions. That's what all religions have in
> common.
Rather a lot of things have presuppositions. By this standard,
meteorology, literary criticism and the American legal system are all
religions. Perhaps you should reconsider your criterion.
> Traditional religion presupposes God; evolution presupposes no
> God. Don't believe me?
No, I don't believe you.
> Try suggesting to an evolutionist that God
> made the natural world; that it didn't make itself.
Where did you get this idea? Lots of "evolutionists" think that God
made the natural world.
-- Steve Schaffner sfs@broad.mit.edu Immediate assurance is an excellent sign of probable lack of insight into the topic. Josiah Royce
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