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: See [[User:Hojimachong/Donut to CPanel]]. Thanks, --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 23:17, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
: See [[User:Hojimachong/Donut to CPanel]]. Thanks, --<font color="#0000CC" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']]</font><sup><font color="00FFAA">[[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]]</font></sup> 23:17, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
== Evolution page: proposal for new section: The Psychological Appeal of Progressive Biological Evolution ==
Here is my own text of my proposed new section:
Many notable atheists assert that a belief in God originated as an irrational answer against the knowledge of one’s own death which it might seem that humans alone possess, as witnessed by humans’ greatly advanced, and otherwise peculiarly strenuous, efforts to avoid their own deaths. But, the theory of progressive biological evolution, and its blood-brother abiogenesis, is as deeply seated in the psyche of fallen humans as anything can be.
Throughout human history, some of the more “empirically grounded” individuals and communities have argued that it is as much as logically impossible for a man long-dead to be raised from his deathly dust and rot, (since such miracles are contrary to the observed laws of biology and physics). But, in recent times, that very view of logic, and of life and death, has lead exactly to the conviction that life is such a thing as not only to have originated purely from dust, and purely by the power of dust, but that, with enough mastery of physics, a sufficiently progressed form of life can create any life anew, if not also make its own life more gloriously capable than itself already is.
Humans' worship of the power of technology, and of its underlying science, is shown everywhere in science fiction, such that contact with extraterrestrial life typically is imagined as a pretext for access to a gloriously far-advanced technology. The theory of progressive evolution is naturally most appealing to this part of the human psyche, by allowing the presupposition of a human progress toward the satisfaction of all points both of human need and of fallen human desire: eternal life, and an essentially consequence-free lifestyle.
(I supposed various other subsections could be added to this proposed new section, such as "''The Paternal history of the most notable strident atheists''".)
One more thing: given my points above, consisting of my text for the proposed new section, I think the beginning of the article, as it currently appears...
"The theory of evolution is a naturalistic theory of the history of life on earth..."
might be better as...
"The theory of evolution is a progressive naturalistic theory of the history of life on earth..."
[[User:PatternOfPersona|PatternOfPersona]] 01:04, 2 July 2011 (EDT)