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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Tuesday, 19 November 2002 09:27 |
Article: Epicurus' and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, christianitytoday.com
Book: Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists, Benjamin Wiker's
"Many leading materialist thinkers in the past two centuries have acknowledged that their philosophy destroys the foundation for Christian ethics, and quite a few have forthrightly attacked Christian morality as outmoded. The philosopher Daniel Dennett, for example, describes Darwinism as a universal acid, dissolving all our traditional concepts, such as religion and morality (but somehow Dennett's materialist metaphysics is impervious to the "universal" acid). E. O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, claims that morality and religion are entirely the product of material processes in the brain. Therefore he dismisses any fixed ethical precepts, including Christian morality."
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