RE: Happiness level after embracing atheism
February 13, 2016 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2016 at 3:58 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(February 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 13, 2016 at 3:15 pm)abaris Wrote: How very gracious of you. So, people following science rather than 3000 year old fiction aren't automatically immoral. Nice to hear.
Rob said he hoped I didn't equate belief in evolution with immorality and I clarified my position. I wasn't insinuating anything else. I'm sure that you're a great and wonderful person, and I won't hold it against you if you're an evolutionist.
There's no such thing as an evolutionist, so you can stop bandying that word around now. Evolution is simply a general word for a forward process, not necessarily related to scientific ideas, and one of those ideas which has been proven through observation of empirical data within the bounds of the Scientific Method is natural selection. The Scientific Method is itself no doctrine, it has more than proven itself basic to the nature of human intelligence by proving to be reliable since at least the time of Aristotle as the best method for evaluating, re-evaluating, correcting, and perfecting ideas as they evolve. Other explanations for natural selection are exclusively used by theists, and they twist and abuse the Scientific Method, therefore they are insidious garbage.
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