Re: SOC: As goes Kansas...(evolution)

Kathryn Aegis (k_aegis@mindspring.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:56:14

At 05:16 PM 10/10/99 -0400, Robert Owen wrote:
>I would agree, Kathryn, that specific concepts of positive and negative moral
>values are artifacts of human social organization (c.f. the debates between
>Rousseau and Voltaire) <snip for sake of bandwidth>

Agreed. The evolution/creationism debate highlights these tendencies, because the scientific model witholds such judgements and the religious model depends upon them for its very existence.

Kathryn Aegis