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Author Topic:   The TRUE reason for the EvC controversy, and why it can not be resolved.
nwr
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Message 146 of 302 (298315)
03-26-2006 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 125 by robinrohan
03-25-2006 11:52 PM


Re: You can't even keep track of what thread you're in.
In Message 13, robinrohan writes:
The reason is that evolution, unlike other scientific theories, has radical philosophical implications.
Copernican astronomy has radical philosophical implications. Newtonian relativity has radical philosophical implications. Einstein's special and general relativity has radical philosophical implications. Somehow you are not seeing those, perhaps because you grew up in a culture where they had been largely absorbed.
Sure, evolution has philosophical implications, but they are not more radical than those from other scientific revolutions. The difference is that we haven't finished absorbing them.
In Message 125, robinrohan writes:
But I will give you my philosophy right now. And you can take or you can leave it. Life has no meaning.
A major philosophical implication of all of the theories mention, is relativism. Your problem with meaning is because you have not absorbed that implication.
Life is very meaningful. But meaning is relative. We give meaning to our lives.
Your constant problem with meaning, is because you have not accepted the relativism and are looking for an absolute meaning.

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