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Pascal's Wager Revisited
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited
(April 10, 2015 at 7:12 pm)datc Wrote: To be sure, the problem of our origins can be interesting and fruitful to study in its own right. But it is hardly the subject of the original post.

No, it makes or breaks the entire discussion. There's no supposing of how we came to be, since this question has been answered by science. And there's a reason why I talk about animals and recent cognition experiments, since their results debunk your lofty stance of humans being in any way unique when it comes to feelings, morals and problem solving. We are evolved, that's all, but what made us is present in other species as well.

As long as you don't inform yourself about scientific discoveries and only take your belief of humans being special as guidance, your arguments are null and void.
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Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm
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