Re: 17 Proofs Of No Evolution

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:01:24 -0500, Mark Earnest wrote:

> "Kelsey Bjarnason" <kbjarnason@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:r902e5-307.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [snips]
>>
>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:54:15 -0500, Mark Earnest wrote:
>>
>>> Without the commandment not to steel, written first in the book and
>>> from that onto men's hearts, man would steel if he thought he could
>>> get away with it.
>>
>> You know, some of us actually have ethics.
> 
> 
> Sure we do.  From my perspective, that is God's law written on our
> hearts.

Er, no.  That doesn't work.

First, because we have no reason to think this "god" thing even exists.

Second, because if we assumed for the nonce that some such thing _did_ 
exist, we have no verifiable details of its properties, meaning that if 
it did exist, there's no particular reason to think it doesn't enjoy the 
suffering and torment of the innocent as an afternoon's entertainment, 
something we would tend to regard as contrary to our ethics.