tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post555129915169614245..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Evolutionary naturalismRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-83993094491750428932010-02-13T14:58:50.079-05:002010-02-13T14:58:50.079-05:00I appreciate the "honesty" of Nagel'...I appreciate the "honesty" of Nagel's assessment of the existential consequences of Naturalistic Evolution. <br /><br />I think that most Atheists cringe inwardly to conceive of a society or culture that operates on the premise that their lives are meaningless. Would atheists, for example, vote to disband police, fire, and rescue departments on the basis that the lives purportedly "at stake" were meaningless?<br /><br />Through what moral framework or upon what moral principles would would atheists contend that such acts as murder or institutions such as slavery are objectionable?<br /><br />If life is meaningless, then the loss of life is also meaningless.EAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649331234241764065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-44696786755086030552010-02-13T10:46:54.795-05:002010-02-13T10:46:54.795-05:00"..we now have every reason to believe that l..."..we now have every reason to believe that life arose from a lifeless universe"<br /><br />The one atheist I discuss the cosmos with never uses the word believe.<br /><br />He simply says know, or perhaps think.<br /><br />For he still has no answer to: "There had to be an eternal something. Either an eternal gas, or rock, or something? For if there was nothing in the beginning, then there would still be nothing.<br />And so where did this eternal thing come from? That is the question that they have no answer for.<br /><br />And it matters not, because they honour and esteem Darwin above every man who ever lived seems like to me.<br /><br />http://maalie.blogspot.com/2010/02/austria-honours-darwin.htmldonsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.com