Happy Darwin Day!

[chaotic_nipple]

Be grateful for your opposable thumbs, while the bacteria give thanks for their antibiotic resistance. Meanwhile, the nascent super-squid make their own plans...

Elsewhere, Congress wants to read your email, Iran is arming the same Iraqis we are, William Donohue's a jackass, 10 reasons to hate America (courtesy of curt_holman), Anders ponders the meaning of truth (kinda), Truth in Advertising, and finally a "Christian" defends the logic of genocide. That logic is impeccable too. If there really is a God, and he/she/it has no constraints upon his/her/its actions, than might _must_ make right, and if God tells you to kill a toddler, a Good Believer should have no qualms. See, that is why all irrational, supernatural belief systems are dangerous. Maybe not equally dangerous, but the seeds of Abraham's psychosis lie within them all. As Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". (BTW, for all intents and purposes, Marxism is a religion too. Just replace the Great Sky God with Historical Inevitability, but require the same adherence to unquestionable dogma. Stupid commies. :-P )

Comments

[madlycool.livejournal.com]

Even if God is the creator, it doesn't necessarily follow we must obey "him" (outside of mere self-preservation).

That leads to the issue: why do what God says is right. If you do what God says, regardless, just because "He" is God, then there's no morality, only obedience. If you do what God says is right because you believe "He" is just, and his commandments and laws are right, you're using you're own moral judgement, which from a moral point of view makes God irrelevant.

[(Anonymous)]

And a Happy Belated Darwin Day(?) to you, too. I'm kinda biased on this subject, as my great-uncle founded and named the science of genetics, way back when (I got the damn big nose to prove it, too!). Darwinist's Unite!

Peace,
Fiona

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