RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 22, 2018 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2018 at 6:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 21, 2018 at 9:10 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(May 21, 2018 at 8:56 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Because people with real knowledge of science can evaluate whether he knows something of what he is talking about.
That is unlike you, who thinks Bible is adaquate substitute for real knowledge of, well, anything, and as a result struts about with an moronic attitude like a baffoon as if time wasted with your bible qualifies you to be a worthy participant in discussion about, well, anything.
I just posted from a scientific source that stated animals aren't moral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal
So a single Wikipedia article about one single researcher is a scientific source now, is it? No summary or survey of all published Peer reviewer professional papers? No survey of their citations?
Quote:Quote:His 2013 book The Bonobo and the Atheist examines human behavior through the eyes of a primatologist, and explores to what extent God and religion are needed for human morality. The main conclusion is that morality comes from within, and is part of human nature. The role of religion is secondary.*emphasis mine*
What's your response to that?
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Response to what? To the fact that not only did you cherry pick a non-scientific source and pretend it reflects the scientific consensus, but had to misrepresent the content of what you cherry picked in order to achieve the effect?
The very paragraph before the quote you cherry picked from the source you cherry picked says “the possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rates....”