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... and the rout goes on!
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:09:32 +0000
"Non-believers now outnumber every religious group in America except
Catholics and Baptists. This is not a surprise to me ? though it may
surprise British people who are regularly fed garbage by our media,
who insist on portraying Americans as people of simple and sunny
faith, whatever form it takes."
(Damian ...
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Re: Is there a religion gene?
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:02:12 -0400
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:54:53 +0000, Pete Barrett
<petebarrett@freeukdot.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:03:02 +0100, PG wrote:
>
>> To me it simply means that the moral code that had evolved at a given point
>> of time considered it to be *right*. If you are asking an evolutionary
>> psychology advocate ...
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Science Disproves Evolution
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
Fossil Gaps 6a
?... there are about 25 major living subdivisions (phyla) of the
animal kingdom alone, all with gaps between them that are not bridged
by known intermediates.? Francisco J. Ayala and James W. Valentine,
Evolving, The Theory and Processes of Organic Evolution (Menlo Park,
California: The Benjam ...
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Science Disproves Evolution
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:17:55 -0700 (PDT)
Fossil Gaps 6a
?... there are about 25 major living subdivisions (phyla) of the
animal kingdom alone, all with gaps between them that are not bridged
by known intermediates.? Francisco J. Ayala and James W. Valentine,
Evolving, The Theory and Processes of Organic Evolution (Menlo Park,
California: The Benjam ...
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Re: Science Disproves Evolution
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:52:21 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 10, 4:38?pm, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...@orrery.e4ward.com>
wrote:
> Pahu wrote:
> > Fossil Gaps 5a
>
> > ?This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to
> > mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, .....
> > ...? George
> > Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution (New York: ...
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Re: Science Disproves Evolution
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 10, 4:38?pm, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...@orrery.e4ward.com>
wrote:
> Pahu wrote:
> > Fossil Gaps 5a
>
> > ?This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to
> > mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, .....
> > ...? George
> > Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution (New York: ...
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Re: Is there a religion gene?
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:58:46 -0400
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:44:14 GMT, petebarrett@freeuk.com (Pete
Barrett) wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:31:19 +0000, Ian Smith
><news0807REMOVECAPS@orrery.e4ward.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Well, I certainly didn't claim that, although empathy seems and
>>excellent start. Maybe we are born with it - maybe we have an
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Re: Is there a religion gene?
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:18:04 -0400
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:46:53 GMT, petebarrett@freeuk.com (Pete
Barrett) wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:43:29 -0400, Christopher A. Lee
><calee@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>Empathy is an observation not an axiom.
>
>But "empathy is good" is (or might be) an axiom.
You're comitting the ad hoc fallacy.
Em ...
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Re: Science Disproves Evolution
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:38:31 +0000
Pahu wrote:
> Fossil Gaps 5a
>
> ?This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to
> mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, .....
> ...? George
> Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution (New York: Columbia
> University Press, 1944), p. 107.
1944!
Pity you can't find a more rece ...
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Re: Is there a religion gene?
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:45:18 +0000
In MsgID<lcscr45c1snqjbbg658kr770ou858m7nt5@4ax.com> on Tue, 10 Mar 2009
10:21:11 -0400, in uk.philosophy.atheism, 'Christopher A. Lee' wrote:
>>I've always used 'good' and 'evil' as personal terms, not connecting them
>>to other people's definitions purely because I know those other
>>definitions vary so widely ...
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