RE: A question about "kinds."
August 5, 2014 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2014 at 9:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
So, most of us realize that arguing against modern synth in toto is useless, including the religious. The trouble is that you don't have to push it back very far until the notion of god as a creative force for all that we see becomes difficult to maintain. What happens to the authority of god, the divine will - when one realizes that said god had no hand in creating the "kinds" we see, including ourselves? It's not a piffling matter to those who wish to maintain the authority of their god. In this case, they're simply favoring the foundational framework of their beliefs over reality - because reality would seem, to them, to be lessened by an acceptance of reality as it is, rather than as they wish for it to be. Any line of "reasoning" that can be used to support that wish is going to get traction among some subset of the faithful. So there's that......but also, there's the fact that them boys aint too bright.
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