RE: Atheists becoming less unpopular?
April 8, 2017 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2017 at 9:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 31, 2017 at 12:00 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 31, 2017 at 11:15 am)Khemikal Wrote: It's not as if there is no secular foundation for such a position.
Try the UN preamble, for starters.
Recognition of inalienable human rights is not the same and having a foundation for them. It's kind of like your objections to intelligent design. Both ID and neo-Dawinists recognize the same complex systems but differ significantly on how those complex systems came to be. Wouldn't you say that ID proponents haven't adequately demonstrated that presence of a designer and that biological systems only appear to be designed? In other words, knowing "that something is" is not the same as knowing "why something is." So no, Khem, there is no secular foundation for human rights.
Neither your disagreement with the various secular foundations of inalienable rights, nor your preference for godidit™ over those secular foundations.....have the ability to make them disappear.
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