Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site we53.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!bmt From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas ) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: misc. creationist topics Message-ID: <244@we53.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 13:26:57 EDT Article-I.D.: we53.244 Posted: Wed Oct 3 13:26:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 09:55:37 EDT References: cybvax0.128, <32500002@uiucdcsb.UUCP> <9651@brunix.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 28 >Actually, if we are no more than self-replicating chemical masses, then there >is, as yet, absolutely no basis for not stepping on our fellow man, with the >possible exception that it is frequently not in our own best interests. And >yet, one intuitively feels that there *should be*. Great philosophers have >wrestled repeatedly with this problem, and have drawn varying conclusions. >But the very fact that Kant, Nietche, or Sartre can come up with such >wildly differing answers suggests that there in fact is no answer. Oh, sure, >you can come up with morals and reasons to choose them, but that will always >be a personal choice. It is a key philosophical problem which has yet to >be satisfactorily resolved.\ > >Life is absurd. Indeed, the only possible solution to the question, if you categorically reject, as all evolutionists do at the outset, what we Bible-thumpers arrogantly call divine revelation. I can assure you that many of us in our unbelieving days wrestled with the same questions and lost, as have the aforementioned scholars and philosophers. Only when confronted by the Person himself... oh, I'm sorry, this group is supposed to stay away from "religious" talk. But you did it first, when you started to talk about meaning. _____________________________________ I will not apologize for breathing... we53!bmt(Brian M. Thomas @ AT&T Technologies, St. Louis, MO)