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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
(If and) when words scribbled down thousands of years ago by PEOPLE from oral tradition and *ostensibly* the direct "words" of a diety make someone ignore such clearly understood things as carbon dating and fossil evidence (note: I am only referring to the fossil evidence we do actually understand) then it is time for me to quit reading a thread that has become meaningless.
[edit]: sorry Yoric - now that I saw your later post, I don't think this is what you were doing, but at the time I did. [end edit]
Yorick is offended by the notion we come from Chimps or something similar, just as he is arrogant in placing humans on a pedastal. Mayhap these internal feelings of superiority and need for a purpose are shared by the majority of people. Mayhap this feeling, and many others shared by conscious reasoning being who fully comprehend mortality is why those people have a *need* to create gods to worship.
God created man. And man, being the perfect gentleman, returned the favor.
- Inherit the Wind
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Timber, you haven't yet responded to my earlier words to you.
I am not offended by such a notion. I simply cannot accept it from the evidence I see and have seen. Yes I am amazed at how marvelous humans are, and that extends to seeing how marvellous I am, and how wonderful my God is. My faith INCREASES MY SELF ESTEEM AND MY LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
You may call it arrogant. I call it enhanced appreciation of human life. An increase in love of self and love of others.
Hardly a destructive tendancy.
It has nothing to do with the way I treat animals either. I love animals and they me. I'm almost a vegetarian, and support animals rights by choosing where my dollar goes by buying free range eggs for example.
But yes, believing that we are created seperately from the animal kingdom does increase my value of human life.
But then we disagree about
the value of human life in a number of areas don't we Timber.
