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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (482314)	5/20/2009 1:27:11 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577937

Seems to me we have a lot more capacity for reason than we need for survival. We're not just a bit smarter than chimps. As for "purpose" being a product of evolution .... thats purely an assumption.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (482314)	5/20/2009 1:28:05 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577937

"Reason and purpose are evolved human traits that have helped us survive." Available evidence contradicts your claim. You're just making stuff up now to be difficult, a sign of frustration. Ideas are abstract and dimensional like time. They exist in an absolute form and in relative form applicable to circumstance. Always available, existing everywhere at once and always, without being in a specific locale, or with specific limitations, except as we find it useful for the sake of our conscious awareness of things. Ideas are available to account for things of the past and in the study or discovery of things. The concept of reason has not evolved, it has always existed exactly as it exists in the present form. Those moral precepts we hold to be sacred are unchange-able and immovable. If the advancement of purpose was evolutionary, we would have become more morally sophisticated as we developed modern societies from ancient ones. That isn’t the case and in fact, the moral conditions of societies that advance in material comforts often seem to degrade on the measures of human morality like corruption, greed, lust, and lasciviousness.