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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 5, 2018 9:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] extropy-chat Digest, Vol 179, Issue 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>>>…<span style='color:#222222'>I think the best counter to the morality question is to direct them back to their own holy books</span>…</span><span class=gmail-hoenzb><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><pre><span style='color:#888888;background:white'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#888888;background:white'>Ben Zaiboc</span><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'>I went to a Southern Baptist college for three </span>…<span style='color:black'> Protestants in general in my experience don't want students taught how to think. They want them taught what to think.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>bill w</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is a classic paradox of our times: religious fundamentalism does create a reproductive advantage. There is no real survival disadvantage that I can see. Plenty of religious fundamentalists accept the notion that they are to spawn several offspring. If one goes strictly on Objectivist philosophy, reproduction makes little sense. Conclusion: in modern times, religious fundamentalism is a big enough reproductive advantage, it can be expected to grow over time, even in the face of counter-evidence of its veracity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>