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"No god means no purpose, no morality"? Why not?
Apparently Mr. Thompson and those like him would have us believe the choice here is between his notion of God--and science--and "moral relativism". Nonsense. An individual doesn't need God in order to behave, and neither does society. Ony those who wish to control others unjustly do.
As for Mr. Thompson's noting that Darwin included of the word "Creator"--with a capital C--in a version of "On the Origin of Species", all this proves is something we already knew: that Mr. Thompson cannot distinguish between matters of personal faith and matters of science. We don't teach Darwin's personal opinions on faith in biology class--because they aren't science.
