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A Further Response to Larry Arnhart, pt. 1:

Darwinism and Traditional Morality

Posted by John West at 12:05 AM

Political science professor Larry Arnhart, author of the book
Darwinian Conservatism, is probably the most thoughtful and articulate
proponent of Darwinism as a support for conservatism. My recent book
Darwin's Conservatives: The Misguided Quest is largely framed as a
response to Arnhart's arguments. I appreciate how seriously Arnhart
takes the debate over the implications of Darwin's theory, and also
how committed he is to a civil discussion. Arnhart has now responded
to my book in two posts (here and here) on his Darwinian Conservatism
blog, and in a four-part series over the next several days I will be
offering my response to his comments. After some initial
clarifications, today's post will focus on the issue of Darwinism and
traditional morality.

Unfortunately, Arnhart starts his analysis of my book by
mischaracterizing my position. He states that I reject "evolutionary
science as totally false." But that claim is incorrect. It is true I
am deeply...

On Sep 19, 1:47 pm, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

twat

Sound of Fart wrote:

This is true only if your traditional morality is based on medieval fear
of hell fire. If you are a moral person because you believe morality is
the right way to treat your fellow beings, then scientific advances will
not have any negative impact on it.

Anyone who is good only because of fear of hell isn't good, only browbeaten.

On Sep 19, 5:47 am, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

Would you argue over the best way to hold satellites in a stable orbit
with a person who believed that the Earth was flat? For example, he
spouts nonsense like:

"Far from encouraging slavery, the Bible sought to circumscribe its
practice and articulated a clear vision of human equality before God
that made slavery increasingly indefensible over time."

All the Bible had to say was, "Slavery is repugnant to God. Don't
practice it and do everything you can to stamp it out."

Instead, he justifies a perfect God imploring masters to be kind to
their slaves! That's a moral monstrosity and cannot even compare with
any possible errors in Larry Arnhart's view.

On Sep 19, 10:59 am, David Schwartz webmaster.com> wrote:

Darwinism Destroys Traditional Morality

Nah! If you got some morality Darwinism won't harm it.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:29:39 -0700, Jon Schild xmission.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:47:47 -0700, Sound of Trumpet
mailcan.com> wrote:

Which has no more to do with evolution than "fording" a river has to
do with a certain American automobile manufacturer.

On Sep 19, 11:06 am, *Anarcissie* gmail.com> wrote:

jxrodri@yahoo.com wrote:

That's because you know what Darwinism actually means. Sound of Fart
thinks it means "all the evil perpetrated on humanity by an atheistic
God-hating evil scientific establishment."