[Mormons and Evolution] 1/17/2006 04:20:22 AM
Elder Packer seems to be saying that acceptance of evolution will lead to complete moral breakdown---that people will be "compelled, to respond to every urge and impulse." This is manifestly false! Do all evolutionary biologists around the country, for example, go around acting like complete savages, raping, killing, what have you? Of course not!
Now it might be that acceptance of evolution leads some to question religious authority---particularly when said authorities undermine their own credibility by being unwilling to address solid evidence for common descent of man's physical body, and by using manifestly overwrought hyperbole about the consequences of this idea. This questioning may therefore lead some to some different conclusions on moral specifics, but to say there will be no morality or no functioning society is simply wrong.
Posted by Christian Y. Cardall
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 1/17/2006 04:20:22 AM
Now it might be that acceptance of evolution leads some to question religious authority---particularly when said authorities undermine their own credibility by being unwilling to address solid evidence for common descent of man's physical body, and by using manifestly overwrought hyperbole about the consequences of this idea. This questioning may therefore lead some to some different conclusions on moral specifics, but to say there will be no morality or no functioning society is simply wrong.
Posted by Christian Y. Cardall
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 1/17/2006 04:20:22 AM
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