Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (33855)	3/4/2013 11:18:14 PM
From: Greg or e	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

Secular mysterians Atheists accuse Christians of resorting to mystery as a last-ditch excuse for our irrational faith in Christianity. And I do think some Christians prematurely play the mystery card. However, it would be a big mistake to think this appeal is limited to Christians. Atheists do the same thing when they find themselves in a bind. That’s how they deflect Christian criticism. For instance: There might be perfectly good reasons why you can’t imagine a solution to the problem of consciousness. As the philosopher Colin McGinn has emphasized, your very inability to imagine a solution might reflect your cognitive limitations as an evolved creature. The point is that we have no reason to believe that we, as organisms whose brains are evolved and finite, can fathom the answer to every question that we can ask. All other species have cognitive limitations, why not us? So even if matter does give rise to mind, we might not be able to understand how. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/awaiting-new-darwin/?pagination=false&printpage=true Notice that this is viciously circular. The inability to explain an evolutionary theory of consciousness is chalked up to…evolution! Posted by steve at 4:54 PM 1 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook [iframe style="POSITION: static; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; WIDTH: 300px; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 20px; VISIBILITY: visible; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; TOP: 0px; LEFT: 0px" id=I2_1362456852199 title=+1 tabIndex=0 marginHeight=0 src="https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv&aria-haspopup=&aria-disabled=&accesskey=&aria-hidden=&hidefocus=false&dir=&aria-expanded=&id=&aria-level=0&lang=&aria-busy=&language=&aria-checked=&aria-readonly=&aria-secret=&class=&title=&role=&disabled=false&aria-posinset=0&tabindex=0&aria-relevant=&aria-live=&aria-labelledby=&aria-pressed=&aria-invalid=&aria-valuenow=&aria-selected=&aria-owns=&aria-valuemax=&aria-valuemin=&contenteditable=inherit&aria-setsize=0&aria-controls=&aria-flowto=&aria-required=&aria-describedby=&aria-activedescendant=&aria-multiselectable=&width=300&annotation=inline&size=medium&source=blogger%3Ablog%3Aplusone&hl=en_US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Ftriablogue.blogspot.ca&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftriablogue.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F03%2Fsecular-mysterians.html&gsrc=3p&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en_GB.dB5bWloLtJo.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DqQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTM2787fcngQSH-F-BAM6M8Lm6mO-A#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I2_1362456852199&parent=http%3A%2F%2Ftriablogue.blogspot.ca&rpctoken=79630428" frameBorder=0 width="100%" allowTransparency name=I2_1362456852199 marginWidth=0 scrolling=no data-gapiattached="true"][/iframe] Links to this post Labels: Atheism, Darwinism, Hays