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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (12065)	1/3/2011 3:40:22 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

huffingtonpost.com This article came out yesterday and is basically just a rehash of the year in genomics. What is far more interesting is the polarized commentaries attached which show that for the religious people (at least these ones) nothing about the fossil and gene record seems to impact their belief in Genesis. When you worked in the scientific community did you find this anomaly? I find it incomprehensible and yet I see it in front of me every day. Any thoughts?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (12065)	1/3/2011 3:41:15 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Do you remember wonderful old Fritz?!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (12065)	1/6/2011 4:46:14 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Jacques. sorry for taking so long to respond. "Do I deny the existence of ground?" I think you have. I was using "ground" in the sense that you did when you referred to building a moral structure from the "ground up" Foundations are a very important aspect of any construction. Even more important than foundations however is that which you place the foundation upon: "grounding" in other words. In construction, foundational "ground" refers to stable, undisturbed soil. Christians see objective ethical facts as being grounded on the unchanging character of a self existent, personal, creator. If there are no objective moral facts then everything is subjective and relative. Any philosophical structure built upon a changeable substructure would suffer the same fate as a building built on mud. I see denying the existence of objective moral facts as denying the possibility of building any binding or stable interpersonal ethic. It looks like you might agree with that, but still, torturing babies for pleasure, remains objectively evil even if you can't account for it.