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Re: Evolution vs Scientific Creationism
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:17:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
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> There it is again. "Lack of reasoning ability" == "lesser person".
I'm OK with that view! (does that come as a shock to anyone???)
Reason is our evolutionary advantage. If you can't or won't reason, you're
repudiating your humanity. I'm an elitist. Deal.
That doesn't mean that only atheists successfully reason, mind you... but
it's the unreasoning intolerant extremists of whatever stripe that are a
threat to society as a whole.
++Lar
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| (...) Let me play off this idea for a minute... The problem with faith-based assertions in a category like debate is that it tends to operate as a trump card of a kind. Faith-based assertions are not logical -- they skip over such a concern and go (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Isn't accusing someone of using "falacious logic" an insult to their person? IE assuming they're a lesser one? I think the assumption you're making is that "I would *never* come to that conclusion, but you would, and that conclusion is (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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