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Article #1239Re: Scientism? - Creationism v. Evolution
From: John Ings
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 13:05
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 13:05
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On 2 May 2004 02:00:23 -0700, apocalypse_zero@hotmail.com (Hostman Brevis) wrote: >> Dumb by whose standards? >Many neuroscientists. >> And a matter of ego. My point sir! >Call it egoism, but the truth is, we all are born as egoists. And egotistical, self-serving arguments usually aren't given much respect in honest debate. >> >but the major thing is: >> >there's no one else to object to our decisions. >> >> And no one, so far as we know, to affirm our opinion of ourselves. >There IS no one else, so it doesn't need to be affirmed. We can say >anything we want. With questionable credibility. >> >Awareness is major criterion. >> >> And conceit a major factor. >Don't pretend to have all the answers, I meant that we are in fact the >only ones with awareness and intelligence to rank ourselves superior. >"Ranking" has to be done by intelligent beings, who are aware of the >environment. It is subjective but based on factors which we think are >are very important. So when you can find independant minds which agree with you, let me know. Until then all you've done is win the game with a stacked deck. >> >DNA technology will let be able to grow new organs, treat degenerative >> >diseases and slow down the aging process. These aren't opinions. >> >> At the moment, yes they are. Probably valid opinions, but still just >> opinions. >Huh? Don't be ridiculous. What kind of anti-biblistic thought is >backing this up? These aren't opinions, but things that are really >going to happen (soon). And when they do, they'll be fact. Right now they are well founded hopes; probably correct opinions of experts; almost certainly valid extrapolations of existing science. But nothing more. ## Remember when kids spoke of taking their 45's to school, ## they meant records?
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Subject: Re: Scientism? - Creationism v. Evolution
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