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This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[40],{"id":41,"tag":42},5326547,{"id":43,"tag_name":44},65167,"creation-science",{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},2344359,"Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth . . . Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, [ethics] is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves . . . Nevertheless, . . . such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction, and any deeper meaning is illusory . . .",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[51],{"id":52,"tag":53},5326539,{"id":54,"tag_name":55},56,"thinking",{"id":57,"quote_text":58,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":59,"source":60,"quote_tag":61,"commentary":9},2344350,"Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. 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Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[84],{"id":85,"tag":86},5326516,{"id":76,"tag_name":77},{"id":88,"quote_text":89,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":90,"source":91,"quote_tag":92,"commentary":9},2344326,"We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[93],{"id":94,"tag":95},5326508,{"id":96,"tag_name":97},25074,"be-careful",{"id":99,"quote_text":100,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":101,"source":102,"quote_tag":103,"commentary":9},2344317,"In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[104],{"id":105,"tag":106},5326501,{"id":107,"tag_name":108},355,"lying",{"id":110,"quote_text":111,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":112,"source":113,"quote_tag":114,"commentary":9},2344311,"The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[115],{"id":116,"tag":117},5326496,{"id":118,"tag_name":119},2762,"atheist",{"currentPage":121,"totalPages":122,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":123},1,2,10]