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, 07:05, August 28, 2008→Salvation rules out extra-terrestrial life?: And a couple of links that I forgot to include
:"''..."free will" ...is '''inherent''' in atheism!''": Yet you fail to explain how. And you are contradicted by others, such as William Provine:
:"''..."free will" ...is '''inherent''' in atheism!''": Yet you fail to explain how. And you are contradicted by others, such as William Provine:
{{QuoteBox|Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear … There are no gods, no purposes, no goal-directed forces of any kind. There is no life after death. When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. That’s the end for me. There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning to life, and no free will for humans, either.[http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4156/]}}
{{QuoteBox|Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear … There are no gods, no purposes, no goal-directed forces of any kind. There is no life after death. When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. That’s the end for me. There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning to life, and no free will for humans, either.[http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4156/]}}
: See also [http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5776/ here] and [http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5928 here].
:"''I personally have no problem with accepting that neurochemistry exists.''": Neither do I. I was talking about whether that's ''all'' there is.
:"''I personally have no problem with accepting that neurochemistry exists.''": Neither do I. I was talking about whether that's ''all'' there is.
:"''Evolution is NOT random, it operates on a fixed rule which is ALWAYS predictable: Organisms well-suited for their environment will survive, the others will not. It's not a random selection at all.''": Natural selection is not random, but the mutations—the claimed source of the novel features—that it supposedly acts on are.
:"''Evolution is NOT random, it operates on a fixed rule which is ALWAYS predictable: Organisms well-suited for their environment will survive, the others will not. It's not a random selection at all.''": Natural selection is not random, but the mutations—the claimed source of the novel features—that it supposedly acts on are.
:"''...naturalism is used all the time in retracing the steps of an automobile accident, say, or a murder''": Natural explanations can be made of the working of a car, but those explanations say nothing about the ''origins'' of the car, which is not naturalistic.
:"''...naturalism is used all the time in retracing the steps of an automobile accident, say, or a murder''": Natural explanations can be made of the working of a car, but those explanations say nothing about the ''origins'' of the car, which is not naturalistic.
:"''By the way, yes I indeed have an employer ...''": But nothing in that paragraph actually responded to my rebuttal of your argument!
:"''By the way, yes I indeed have an employer ...''": But nothing in that paragraph actually responded to my rebuttal of your argument!
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:00, 28 August 2008 (EDT)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 03:00, 28 August 2008 (EDT)