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Evolution and Specialness of Humanity

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Funkaloyd
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Message 128 of 316 (251405)
10-13-2005 9:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 119 by robinrohan
10-13-2005 12:53 AM

Re: Uniqueness
robinrohan writes:
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Clark writes:
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Evangelical Christians are the most nihilistic group of people I've ever met.
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You haven't met too many nihilists, apparently...
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I think he's coming from a Nietzschean angle. Christianity has a tendency to make its followers "automatons of duty", in "denial of life". Prophex, in his attempt to find meaning and beauty in life, is ironically devaluing that life by putting emphasis on myth.
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Funkaloyd
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Message 228 of 316 (252529)
10-17-2005 9:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 226 by joshua221
10-17-2005 8:37 PM

Re: The questions...
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X is false because the implications are not visible to me.
  —Prophex
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Like a blind man who denies that the Sun exists.
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Anyway, you still haven't established how exactly this "specialness" that you've observed negates evolution and proves Genesis.
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Funkaloyd
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Message 233 of 316 (252903)
10-18-2005 11:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 231 by joshua221
10-18-2005 10:43 PM

Simple thought experiment:
Assume for a moment that the ToE is true. How would you go about proving that love is only a mechanism of survival, and that God doesn't exist?
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Funkaloyd
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Message 237 of 316 (252951)
10-19-2005 6:39 AM 		Reply to: Message 234 by joshua221
10-19-2005 5:35 AM

Re: Simple thought experiment:
prophex writes:
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Funkaloyd writes:
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How would you go about proving that love is only a mechanism of survival, and that God doesn't exist?
I would point towards the social development of our ancestors, using love as an expression/feeling to survive in groups/families or as a little community later on.
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And this would proove that God doesn't exist, and that love isn't at all special? Think about it.
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to create man slowly and gradually, there is no love within this process
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He sure took his time with me and you. Does that mean he doesn't love us?
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