Evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, July 27, 2009, 18:04 (5597 days ago) @ David Turell

I do not believe that anything can "fashion itself", in the sense of bringing itself into existence..... The earliest replicants could be said to have come into being spontaneously (in the sense of "naturally") when all the necessary conditions and components were in place for the reactions to happen.
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> > Whether the theory of evolution is compatible with "theism" or not depends on the type of "theos" that you espouse.
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> I agree with these statements. We have no idea how life started, but a chance arrangement of conditions and components, against enormous odds, cannot be denied. And I think my brand of panentheism is compatable with evolution. What monotheistic religions have developed is an anthropomorphic 'theos'. Folks like Francis Collins invent their brand of process theism (process evolution) in an attempt to bring science and a fundamental religion together, and in my mind it is a failure. - It might be a failure but in all honesty if we could get more theistic scientists I think we could reverse some of the trend in the U.S. where now only 30% accept evolution. Nietzsche's epithet "God is dead" is in the fact that the greek religions would modify their mythos to accommodate new inquiry and investigation. Limits on a God weren't so strange. We need the dogmatic in our society to start rewriting and reinterpreting their books, people like Collins are absolutely intrinsic to such an event. So even if it is a logical failure we should promote it.

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