James Goff: Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin: "We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its ...
Phil S: I can't believe you would actually fall for this ploy of selective quoting. Professional biologists are well aware that natural selection is based on...
Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin: "We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill...
Al: "...the *basis* of morality is the behavior and that's found in some animals." Jim: Morality is based on universally normative moral principles. The ...
Clare> I didn't agree that the "rudimentary building blocks of human morality ... Al> Ok, fair enough. Fwiw, I thought you meant by "building blocks" incipient...
ATHEIST MORALITY Me: "I was arguing that morality is meaningful only with respect to meaningful beings, and that the wholly materialistic conception of human ...
Me: "You should take this up with Darwinists, many of whom candidly admit that they've defined natural selection in such a way that it amounts to a tautology....
... Says the atheist to the Christian. ... I haven't the vaguest notion whether Jim has implied that religion and Darwinism are "incompatible," but it does...
Natural selection, as a mechanism in evolution, has been disparaged by creationists/IDists in two major ways. The first involves allegations of tautology,...
MORALITY Al: "In my view morality ultimately had its origins in wired in behaviors or behavioral tendencies that amounted to beneficial social adaptations that...
... the quote is out of context and he's actually speaking about physics and astronomy: http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Lewontin_on_materialism ... ID is a...
... On June 30, 2007, you wrote: "[T]ruth is everything. . . . Truth is job #1, all else follows. ... Honest "evolutionary" biologists / neuroscientists /...
... that's an excellent question. I haven't seen you asking it before. For me happiness is the company of my family and friends, learning new things,...
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE Me: "...in Darwinian terms, the fittest organisms are (by definition) the organisms that survive to leave the most offspring. Thus, as...
TAIL WAGGING THE DOG Me: "What you say about 'most scientists' may very well be the case, but Lewontin was speaking for biologists (especially for evolutionary...
... You failed. Bundy's words are meaningless to this discussion. He lived a short miserable life as a direct result of his actions. That he, personally, was...
ATHEIST MORALITY Susan: "Bundy's words are meaningless to this discussion." Your claim was that happiness is the meaning of moralty. Bundy's depredations made...
We are regularly bombarded with claims of new scientific discoveries. Scientists do discover evidences (such as a galaxy cluster previously unnoticed)....
(ANSWERING A POST FROM AL) ... A lot of people don't. They don't quite get that morality is the only way to have a happy life and that immorality is a fast...
James Goff: "...in Darwinian terms, the fittest organisms are (by definition) the organisms that survive to leave the most offspring. Thus, as Waddington aptly...
Jim: [...] If there's no reason for humans to exist, then their existence in the universe is no more meaningful than their nonexistence (nonexistence obviously...
... whether evolution is true or not. Materialism cannot turn us into mindless amoral robots. __Materialism IS mindlessness and makes morality meaningless. ...
... For the sake of those open to truth and logic... So are the injunctions against killing, stealing, coveting, bearing false witness, or loving your neighbor...
... Do you realize how silly what you've written sounds? The paragraph I wrote gives you no logical, rational reason to infer that "morality doesn't have an...
Al: "In my view morality ultimately had its origins in wired in behaviors or behavioral tendencies that amounted to beneficial social adaptations that...
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE Me: "...George Gaylord Simpson, one of the founders of neo-Darwinism, wrote that '(n)atural selection favors fitness only if you define...
RESPONDING TO JIM ... Al has put his finger on an extremely important point. Does morality come from "on high" or is it "home grown" and what is the...
... As usual, the paragraph I wrote gave you no reason to infer that I meant Bundy "enjoyed" his "years* on death row." My point: you haven't the vaguest idea...
James Goff: "...George Gaylord Simpson, one of the founders of neo-Darwinism, wrote that '(n)atural selection favors fitness only if you define fitness as...
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