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Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
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RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
(October 12, 2020 at 5:02 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Understanding what is natural, in this case evolution, does not certify what is or is not right.  We're having a conversation about the latter in the case of sin, not the former.

I don't know that it's a fact that evolution has us trend toward cooperation, or that we can say in any unqualified way that cooperation is the best survival technique - but even if we assume that it were, and is, this is not a comment about morality, but about what is natural.

Evolution works and is right for all life.

As tribal creatures, it is obvious that we are led to cooperate otherwise we would never get the chance to grow up.

We suckle the breast. We do not bite it. That is cooperation.

Regards
DL

(October 12, 2020 at 6:01 pm)Sal Wrote: Indeed, to conflate evolution with morality smells of the naturalistic fallacy (not be confused with appeal to nature fallacy). I think I understand sin a bit more, but there are probably more gaps than I'd like.

I agree and did not do so.

I just showed that science applies moral labels to our instinctual action and that they have analogies in religions.

Regards
DL
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RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians. - by Greatest I am - October 12, 2020 at 6:34 pm

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