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Originally posted by Aviendha:
You're losing me John. Perhaps if you really have something you would like to say, you could say it in English, and not just use an unrealistic example to prove everything and nothing.
Human's evolution over millions of years has been both a physical process and a society based process. We have learnt how to live in a society through morals and ethics (usually enforced through authority). People still break these morals and ethics, and are generally looked down upon by the rest of society. The reason that Christian ethics are very similar to the ones that human beings, as time has progressed have decided are both right and helpful for society based living, are because human beings created Christianity (IMHO)!
Using Lions and Hyenas as examples seems unreasonable. They have a totally different social structure to us, which involves, as you mentioned, survival of the fittest. We, as human beings, have generally (and there are examples of where it has not been the case) believed everyone should have an equal opportunity at life. That is a rational decision.
In my opinion, Christian's do not give enough credit to the human being, and their ability to exist and evolve, without the existence of a higher being.
Avi.
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Miss Aviendha Ma'am (assumuption made to your gender, please forgive me if I'm wrong)
I did use english, I merely substituted Chem. piles for Humans, or people, because if all we are is evloved chemical slime then lets call us what we are. Not some label to make us feel better. Useing Lions and Hyenas is not unreasonable, because they crawled from the same chemical slime that we did. In order to dismiss their social structure then any social structure differing from the one that the viewer is in must also be dimissed.
I hold the opposite opinion of Christianity's credit to Humans to evolve. One of the cornerstones of Christianity is freewill, the ability to exist and evolve.