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Sorry about the rant --- this post just rubbed me the wrong way:
No problems.
Needless to say, I agree with Pete Harcoff. Morality came about through evolutionary processes, having to do with working together as a group to survive.
You may think not all you want, but I've yet to have a single Christian explain why the U.S., a considerably more fervent Christian nation than more 1st world countries, has generally worse social issues than less Christian nations. For example, the original poster who brought up the topic of morality and how murder is wrong.
The US has a murder rate that's about double that of the Czech Republic. Yet the Czech Republic is about 50% atheist/agnostic/non-religious.
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
because we tend to only trust our own tribes. Same goes for the religious when they slaughter each other and both claim to be religions of piece and love. Remind you of anyone? It happens between village, nations and religions. Whats your point?
Agreed, we are tribal to a certain degree. And conflicts definitely arise, typically over competition for resources, conflicting ideologies, and so forth. And it definitely doesn't matter whether religion is involved or not. Which is I firmly believed that the "morality" supposedly derived from religion isn't.
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
I think you guys are getting morality mixed up with ethics:
morality = how man interacts with God
ethics = how man interacts with man
You're making up definitions.
Ethics are the rules of conduct or base principles. Morality is the compliance with those rules of conduct/principles.
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
Last edited by Pete Harcoff; 23rd August 2009 at 12:21 PM.
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Satan goes after the Christians, not the non-Christians.
Yeah, I've heard this before. Although it completely flies in the face of what plenty of other Christians have told me. Maybe you guys should all get together and figure things out before trying to argue with non-believers. It's just confusing otherwise.
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
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