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Old 08-07-2007, 06:12 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Indy Coug View Post
1. Some use natural selection as a way of denying the existence of God.
What's this? People deny the existence of God so they can have more fun? Because Satan has got hold of them? So they use natural selection as a means to reaching their foreordained conclusion? You're so full of dung.

No, people conclude absence of God largely based on the rationale posited in the quotation from Orr's article I set out above. And, by the way, it has been shown systematically that belief in God does not make one more likely to be ethical. Even C.S. Lewis acknowledged this (he conceded, despite his ardent Christianity, that religious people may well be immoral in greater numbers, analogizing religion to a hospital, but for the soul).
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