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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

God enough

We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 02:50 PM

    @ jmcdsf, who wrote:

    "Having a better understanding of the foundations of science and it's place within our rationality might make you realise the limiting and fundamentally false nature of scientism/positivism/materialism that seems so pervasive amongst new atheists."

    Materialism? Materialism is one of those things that suggest unbelief. Poll people going into a casino or a race track and ask them if they believe in Jesus as the son of God. Poll people in their McMansions and ask them if they believe the same. Them ask them how they reconcile Jesus refusing Satan's bribery of material wealth and their lusting and hoarding of material wealth. I don't even know how you can have an Internet connection and believe that you're connected to Jesus. There are hungry children right now. An alleged believer with an Internet connection must have a disconnect between their actions and their alleged faith. If you believe, you would only care about your allegedly immortal soul and you would shun all wealth, such as your computer, since the Bible asserts that rich people are damned.

    And if you truly wanted to chat, you wouldn't sling so many fancy words. I think you want to impress. And argue, as you've done in all those gay threads.

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