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Originally Posted by peter12
I'm not attacking atheism per se, just the common liberal humanist interpretation espoused by most people nowadays. The point of my post is that there are far deeper methods by which to explore the depth of the gods than to merely point to natural selection as the great disclaimer.
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I don't see natural selection being used as the great disclaimer. I see natural selection being pointed to as a key mechanism by which biological change occurs, and since our brains are part of the biology of ourselves it can't be ignored, but again I don't see how that's being used to deny or short circuit any philosophical thought.
That'd be like Calgaryborn's claim that natural selection is the great disclaimer for morality; clearly not the case.
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Originally Posted by peter12
The real point of discussion is the gods as human revelation, not the gods as materialist creators.
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Do you mean examining what humanity says about the gods and by what that says about humanity finding something out about humanity that we didn't know before? Just trying to get what you mean here.