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Darwinism Ethics Evolution Human evolution

Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

This should be interesting: Book Description In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler’s evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler’s immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. This ethic underlay or influenced almost every major feature Read More…

Darwinism Human evolution

Darwinism and popular culture: Capturing traditional peoples and treating them as exhibits …

This, however, must be said: Darwinists need “ape men” in a way that no one else does, because no one else cares if there aren’t any ape men and never have been – for the same reasons as no one else cares if Puff the Magic Dragon has never existed.

RAM Querius, A lot of words in your reply. (And, of course, I've heard all of it before. I used to... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, we may not know everything about a designer, especially a contingent being designer, but one thing we do know.... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @ So, it’s well adapted for the purpose of designing bacterium. A designer is "adapted" by who? And whose... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist Consciousness, the free rational person, the intelligent designer, cannot be explained by mindless physical stuff. Already addressed. "We don't know... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
asauber Jerry, ID does have something to do with religion in the sense that everyone (literally) has religious views about their... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, how you love loaded terms. By obvious definition, a successful designer is CAPABLE of carrying out said design. Reginald... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I bought the book and it is expensive, $29 for kindle version. It has from what I can see nothing... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus F/N: Observe, Willard and heirs: To have knowledge in the dispositional sense—where you know things you are not necessarily thinking... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist … that will not change the point that the relevant information, knowledge, design decisions, system architecture etc would have been... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, reduction of rational, intuitive, imaginative and creative thought to computation on a substrate fails. Not least, as computation is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, why not do an in page search for say, "in the intelligence"? You will find for example 302: As... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes KF @416 … the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, the FIRST -- branch on which we all sit [so of first principle character] -- fact of experience is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus L&FP, 67: So-called “critical rationalism” and the blunder of denying [defeat-able] warrant for knowledge – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @KF Drumbeat repetition of an answered assertion, pretending that it was not answered repeatedly. Ok, then which comment(s)? Please quote... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist If consciousness is fundamental and cannot be explained by something else, then this is where we must base our explanations... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied, chaos is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist I wrote… If the recipe for a bacterium is one of these entities that exhibit reliable signs of design, and... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I do not like to discuss religion here because ID has nothing to do with religion but an interesting new... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, do you understand what you clipped? Notice, ". . . A class of machine we have analysed since 1948,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @405 First, if conciseness cannot be explained, then it’s unclear how this reflects any more of an explanation for... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...