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Politics : Evolution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (9440)	11/4/2010 8:11:57 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

< Darwinism has always been defined as a purposeless process,> Pointing to his actual works to show this would be nice... I'd be VERY interested seeing it. Till then, we'll assume its just crap. Boy, you don't know much about Darwin. icr.org .... Neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins recognized the purposelessness of such a system: In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.22 How widely is this view held by scientists? One study of 149 leading biologists found that 89.9 percent believed that evolution has no ultimate purpose or goal except survival, and we are just a cosmic accident existing at the whim of time and chance. A mere six percent believed that evolution has a purpose.23 Almost all of those who believed that evolution had no purpose were atheists. This is only one example that Sommers and Rosenberg call the "destructive power of Darwinian theory."24 ..... 22.Dawkins, Richard. 1995. River Out of Eden. New York: Basic Books, 133. 23.Graffin, Gregory W. 2004. Evolution, Monism, Atheism, and the Naturalist World-View. Ithaca, NY: Polypterus Press, 42. 24.Sommers, Tamler and Alex Rosenberg. 2003. Darwin's Nihilistic Idea: Evolution and the Meaningless of Life. Biology and Philosophy, 18:653. icr.org