Re: Commentary: The age of reason
- From: moxmaniac@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 6 Apr 2007 10:31:32 -0700
On Apr 6, 6:18 am, Jason Spaceman <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From the article:
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Jim Hinckley
A Return to Common Sense
A recent column in this series that questioned whether evolutionary
theory was transcending from science to religion touched a nerve or
two. After careful consideration, it seemed a response and
clarification were in order.
Though I am strongly opinionated, providing validity to any one
opinion, mine, or anyone else's is not the goal of this series. From
its inception, the concept behind this column was to provide material
for water cooler conversation, to spark discussion on controversial
topics and, perhaps, encourage people to question, to think.
I did not intend to attempt to prove or disprove the theory of
evolution in a recent column. In a very limited space, I wanted to
make it known that though it is widely accepted, the concept of
evolution is largely stuck in the realm of theory couched in
scientific terminology and that to accept it without question requires
a certain degree of faith, the same substance that underpins religion.
In religion, those who question foundational precepts are branded
heretics. What happens to lay people or even men of science who
question how life in all its complexity can spring from a proper
mixing of chemicals and minerals or dare to suggest there appears to
be intelligent design behind the intricacies of life?
Even though the study of evolutionary theory is largely scientific in
nature, there are philosophical aspects, and as with religion, those
aspects have far-reaching ramifications. Though the evidence is all
around us, we often tend to forget this simple premise: Behind every
government, behind every society, there is an underlying philosophy.
Consider this: The largest slaughters in history took place during the
20th century. Underpinning the most horrendous was not religion in the
traditional sense but a firm belief there was no God, that one race or
creed of man was inferior to another, that the wisdom of man could
engineer a better society.
The theory, science, or philosophies of evolution may not have been to
blame, but they were manipulated and utilized. The foundation of the
holocaust of Nazi Germany was an inherent belief that a modern society
had an obligation to weed out the weak and the inferior. The horrors
of the killing fields in Cambodia, the cold hopelessness that is the
fruit of communism, all have as their foundation a philosophy devoid
of the concept that there is a God.
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Read it athttp://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&;...
J. Spaceman
Hmmmm, conflating abiogenesis with evolution, and the nazi/hitler
spiel...any more fallacies in the article i'm missing?
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