Evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, July 25, 2009, 17:22 (5395 days ago) @ dhw

dhw, - Good post here. As usual I would like to be a nitpicker in regards to your creationism and theism statement. - I would still qualify that evolution is only compatible with certain kinds of theism... you appear to make a false distinction between theism and creationism. Creationism is a subset of theism, because it can only exist with a corresponding theistic perspective. The distinction you make here would mean that creationists wouldn't have to be theists. It is better to divide theism into the three camps of creation, design, and my extreme deism. (Don't know what else to call it.) After that extreme deistic perspective you have a middle circle corresponding to agnosticism and finally the complete rejection of all theism. - As someone who's presently mired in turn of the century german philosophy (Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heideggar, etc.) I have a hard time finding telelogical principles in anything but that which humans themselves have created. But it is teleology that is most informative on what we've been discussing.

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