Re: Battleground God

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 16:17:35 MST


On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:42:34PM -0500, ABlainey@aol.com wrote:
> I also had to bite a bullet. It didn't quite have my brain in fully
> rational mode.
> My problem was that I seem to require more proof that God exists than I need
> for the proof of Evolutionary theory. Interesting, but I think that I maybe
> justified in my view. ?.

I got the same "problem". I consider this a case of "extraordinary
claims require extraordinary proof" - evolution can be studied to a far
greater extent than theological claims. Part of this is that it is a far
more constrained explanation model for observed facts.

Overall, an enjoyable little website. There should really be more sites
like this for other questions (right now I'm reading a book about the
animal rights movement, and it has some interesting examples of how
tricky the issue of deciding what beings have rights and on what basis
is; it would probably make a good "battleground ethics" setup).

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