ext_176843 ([identity profile] spoonless.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] spoonless 2010-10-12 09:24 am (UTC)

Re: religious darwinists

Just to try to say more specifically where the incompatibility arises from...

Most religions start from the point of view that ideas and mind and intelligence is fundamental, and matter is something that was either created by intelligence or is projected or imagined by intelligent beings. Whereas the insight that Darwin's theory has given science is that intelligence arose from matter as an emergent property, not the other way around. So it's completely backwards to picture matter arising from intelligence, rather than intelligence arising from matter.

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