Comments on: Archive: Axial Age and the evolution of religion http://darwiniana.com/2009/08/02/archive-axial-age-and-the-evolution-of-religion/ History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate Thu, 24 May 2012 17:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darwiniana » Log of recent posts, plus ‘mini-archive’ http://darwiniana.com/2009/08/02/archive-axial-age-and-the-evolution-of-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-337698 Darwiniana » Log of recent posts, plus ‘mini-archive’ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:57:29 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=29665#comment-337698 [...] of scientism on Fifty years after CP SnowDarwiniana » Absurd claims for natural selection on Archive: Axial Age and the evolution of religionLisa A. Shiel on Archive: Axial Age and the evolution of religionStephen P. Smith on Infants: [...] [...] of scientism on Fifty years after CP SnowDarwiniana » Absurd claims for natural selection on Archive: Axial Age and the evolution of religionLisa A. Shiel on Archive: Axial Age and the evolution of religionStephen P. Smith on Infants: [...]

]]> By: Darwiniana » Absurd claims for natural selection http://darwiniana.com/2009/08/02/archive-axial-age-and-the-evolution-of-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-337695 Darwiniana » Absurd claims for natural selection Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:14 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=29665#comment-337695 [...] Comment on Axial Age and the evolutio of religion Lisa A. Shiel said, August 3, 2009 at 7:08 am In his article Robert Wright also says “Natural selection built the conscience, hence guilt, into our brains.” This is an utterly absurd statement, since no one can possibly know this. How or indeed if natural selection (the engine of evolution) brought about such mental processes remains untestable and, therefore, unprovable. Evolutionists adore making these kinds of statements, with the implied addendum that we should believe them because they say so. [...] [...] Comment on Axial Age and the evolutio of religion Lisa A. Shiel said, August 3, 2009 at 7:08 am In his article Robert Wright also says “Natural selection built the conscience, hence guilt, into our brains.” This is an utterly absurd statement, since no one can possibly know this. How or indeed if natural selection (the engine of evolution) brought about such mental processes remains untestable and, therefore, unprovable. Evolutionists adore making these kinds of statements, with the implied addendum that we should believe them because they say so. [...]

]]> By: Lisa A. Shiel http://darwiniana.com/2009/08/02/archive-axial-age-and-the-evolution-of-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-337688 Lisa A. Shiel Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:08:30 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=29665#comment-337688 In his article Robert Wright also says "Natural selection built the conscience, hence guilt, into our brains." This is an utterly absurd statement, since no one can possibly know this. How or indeed if natural selection (the engine of evolution) brought about such mental processes remains untestable and, therefore, unprovable. Evolutionists adore making these kinds of statements, with the implied addendum that we should believe them because they say so. Evolution requires as much belief--and blind belief at that--as any religion. Lisa A. Shiel author of The Evolution Conspiracy http://EvolutionConspiracy.com/ In his article Robert Wright also says “Natural selection built the conscience, hence guilt, into our brains.”

This is an utterly absurd statement, since no one can possibly know this. How or indeed if natural selection (the engine of evolution) brought about such mental processes remains untestable and, therefore, unprovable. Evolutionists adore making these kinds of statements, with the implied addendum that we should believe them because they say so.

Evolution requires as much belief–and blind belief at that–as any religion.

Lisa A. Shiel
author of The Evolution Conspiracy
http://EvolutionConspiracy.com/

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]]> By: James http://darwiniana.com/2009/08/02/archive-axial-age-and-the-evolution-of-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-337669 James Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:20:52 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=29665#comment-337669 "No matter how much science can explain, it seems the real gap that God fills is an emptiness that our big-brained mental architecture interprets as a yearning for the supernatural." Maybe they should also learn to ditch the term "supernatural." These incoherent, schizophrenic attempts to define "naturalism" by creating a sausage out of incompatible theories/worldviews such as Newtonian mechanics (the real parent of Darwinian thinking), relativity, and QM seem preposterous to anybody who has some knowledge of the history of science. These "scholars" of religion simply discredit themselves from the start. “No matter how much science can explain, it seems the real gap that God fills is an emptiness that our big-brained mental architecture interprets as a yearning for the supernatural.”

Maybe they should also learn to ditch the term “supernatural.” These incoherent, schizophrenic attempts to define “naturalism” by creating a sausage out of incompatible theories/worldviews such as Newtonian mechanics (the real parent of Darwinian thinking), relativity, and QM seem preposterous to anybody who has some knowledge of the history of science. These “scholars” of religion simply discredit themselves from the start.

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