(March 14, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Heywood Wrote:(March 14, 2014 at 5:07 pm)Jovanian Teapot Wrote: To say that evolution in no way contradicts any religious tenets is false; it seems to me that evolution threw the book of genesis into the fucking grinder.
I said evolution is not inconsistent with a theistic world view. I never said it did not contradict any religious tenets.
(March 14, 2014 at 5:40 pm)max-greece Wrote: Moving the goalposts much? We were talking about targets and now we are talking about potential targets. Anything and everything can be a potential target.
This would be true is evolution were truly blind. However since evolution is guided not everything can be realized.
Nothing factual is inconsistent with a religious world view because the religious worldview itself is not based in anything factual, but rather based on blind conjecture in regards to the nature of the universe.
You keep rambling about how evolution is guided. It seems like you have personified natural selection to be something supernatural.
What is evolution guided by?
As has been expressed, it seems to be guided by survivability. What is it that you are not understanding?
I doubt you actually read my entire post just as much as I doubt that you actually went and read those books I recommended.
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”- Voltaire
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus