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| Posted On: 12/06/07 11:01:32 PM | | Age 24, NH |
Well-written article that clearly shows how the persistence of irrational beliefs can be explained through their adaptive values - not something I would expect from a Christian. Fortunately, we are living in a time where cultural evolution, which, I like to believe, predisposes toward rationality and thruth, is overtaking purely Darwinian selection, and maybe someday we will be able to transcend such ancestral vestiges as faith that remain hard-coded in our genetics and neurochemistry.
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- EVEN SOME OLD ATHEISTS CAN NOT DENY THE EVIDENCE
| Posted On: 12/11/07 07:21:02 PM | | Age 64, OH |
Even Antony Flew who was an atheists for 80 years could not deny all the evidence that there was a first cause to all that exists. The more I studied the universe the harder it was not to believe. FAITH IS NOT BEING BLIND but faith is hearing from the God that created you. I made the "mistake" of asking God is he was there to show me that he was. HE DID. HE IS GOD AND HE CAN. Lou
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Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/27/07 08:15:41 AM |
Age 49, GA |
Bravo! I agree and applaud your article! Thank you for expressing what all we of faith have known. Your eloquence is appreciated.
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WAS IT RIGHT TO END THE K K KLAN
| Posted On: 11/23/07 11:22:53 AM |
Age 64, OH |
The KKK preached that all blacks , Catholics, and Jews should be killed. The open preaching of this brought about the killing of these people. The supreme law of this nation guarantees the God given right to life for all of its citizens. It was by the supreme law of the land that the KKK was outlawed and it was RIGHT to do so. Anyone who preaches against THE RIGHT TO LIFE in the way Harris and Rosie O'Donnell have in public should be brought to a consequence the same as the KKK was by the law of our nation. These people belong in the same list as Hitler, Stalin, Osama Bin Laden, and all serial killers. Lou
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FREE SPEECH DOES NOT INCLUDE TEACHING MURDER
| Posted On: 11/23/07 11:09:41 AM |
Age 64, OH |
In his book The End of Faith, Harris actually says, “The link between belief and behavior raises the stakes considerably. Some propositions are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them." - I do not think Harris should be executed as he thinks I should be; but Harris does NOT have the right to publish what he has written. Our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE guarantees a right ABOVE free speech. THAT IS THE RIGHT TO LIFE. This man is speaking against the most basic right of man and that is the right to life. We have had men like this all throughout the history of man. Harris belongs in the same list as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Attila the Hun, and all serial killers. Saudi Arabia allows this kind of teaching in their schools and Osama was the result. We should allow anyone to express their opinion EXCEPT when someone preaches some people DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE. This teaching promotes a society like that of the Nazi or The Extreme Muslim. NO SOCIETY CAN PROMOTE MURDER OR ALLOW MURDER TO BE PROMOTED AND SURVIVE. Lou
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Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/23/07 10:36:48 AM |
Age 44, ENGLAND |
David, thanks for the article. The only thing that causes me to ponder is that if only 2.36% of the Earths 6.5 billion human beings are atheists why are you writing this article, surely they are hardly worth a rebuttal? They must be wrong because so many other peoplr dissagree with them? Why not leave them to get on with their miserable lives(as the two surveys you quote suggest). There must be people with a higher % of belief in something you could write about that could have a bigger affect in the world in which you live. Regards, Steve
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- IT IS DANGEROUS TO PREACH AGAINST THE RIGHT TO LIFE
| Posted On: 11/26/07 09:27:46 AM | | Age 64, OH |
1st - when we live in a society that Rosie O'Donnell can say that born again Christians are more dangerous than the men who brought down the WTC and there is not an immediate outcry and outrage against ODonnell; then our society is dangerous indeed. 2nd - atheists that write books that say Christians are dangerous people and should be treated as such are DANGEROUS men on the par with Hitler. 3rd - the fact that there are, as you say, only 2.36% of the population that are atheists has NOTHING to do with the fact that they are correct or not. Jesus said the path to life was narrow and FEW will find it. I believe Jesus and testify what he said is true and there will be FEW that will find the path to life. I really doubt that there are are 2.5% of the population that are true Christians that The Lord Jesus has shown by His guarantee by filling them with His Holy Spirit. Lou
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Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/23/07 09:11:02 AM |
Age 46, AR |
And do not forget the recent Baylor study on Religion in America which found no atheists among African Americans. With numbers this small (2% - 5%) and the numbers predominantly restricted to white males, atheism appears not to be truth but a group convention isolated to a small and provincial club which is unwilling to engage in anything other than group thought. So much for the "free thinkers" claim.
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- Re: Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/26/07 03:09:24 PM | | Age 44, ENGLAND |
Dear AR , allowing that the information concerning Baylor is corrct (Baylor, not your reporting of it)I'd be interested to know how you come to your final conclusion concerning free thinkers, it may be that the social clique you refer to actually encourages free thinking( I'm not saying it actually does, but I am saying that there may be an alternative explanation to the one you give). I look forward to your explanation as to how you came to your conclusionn, regards, Steve
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- Re: Re: Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/28/07 10:23:10 AM | | Age 46, AR |
You can find the Baylor study on line. I have quoted it accurately. Regarding free thinkers, note, I did not claim to be a free thinker, I challenged atheists who claim to be free thinkers. I find the proposition of "free thinking" as conceived of by atheists to be a myth. Man's thinking is always conditioned, predicated and presuppositional. It is never de novo, autonomous, and original. The assumption of free thought is but one of the simplistic and fatal flaws of atheism. All thought depends on pre-critical presuppositions. Thus, thinking is never radically free.
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Re: Atheism and the Survival of the Fittest
| Posted On: 11/22/07 09:53:44 AM |
Age 61, MO |
In some ways we might confuse the concepts of "Survival of the Fittest" with those of "Competition." Competition is an essential ingredient for the United States political and economic systems. But it must be tempered with a Biblical worldview of at least the moral principles of honesty, and without the sins of greed and pride. The Biblical worldview of competition will cause a charitable giving with nothing expected in return. The lack of Biblical precepts associated with Atheism, will have a view of competition that makes it synonomous with survival of the fittest. Pure biological survival of the fittest tends, as does atheism to be devoid of absolutes. Especially moral absolutes. So any means justifies the ends. A quick review of history reveals that when an attitude of survival of the fittest has pushed out the Biblical precepts of honest competition, deterioration of those societies has been the result. George Cancilla
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