[extropy-chat] intelligent design homework

[The Avantguardian]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Which really is a shame.  ID as a justification for
> evolution, instead
> of an "alternative" to evolution, could be furthered
> for >H causes.  If
> one believes that God used evolution to create
> mankind, that suggests
> that (responsibly) taking advantage of the universe
> we've been
> presented may in fact be God's will...including such
> things as altering
> ourselves to be longer-lived, more intelligent (more
> capable of
> perceiving God's wisdom?), et al.  Why fight the
> Catholic church if we
> could co-opt it?  (Or, failing that, most of the
> Protestant churches.)
> And that's just the Christian part of the world...

Amen, brother!

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com