You’ve clearly never been owned by a cat.
(Ailuromancy disillusions diviners and methodological naturalists)
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Cats think they’re individually special. I’m talking about thinking they’re special as a species.
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I’m afraid that I consider your several replies to me today to be irrelevant gibberish. Case in point: we weren’t talking about convincing YECs, and there’s no reason this web forum should be limited to talking about convincing YECs.
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How could you know that cats do not think they are special as a species? 
It may not be important to you, but that doesn’t mean it is unimportant to Christians (or other religions and cultures, for that matter).
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I remember saying/feeling the same things as a believer, and I believed then as I do now that saying “I don’t know” is not just okay, it seems the only sane way to approach a question like “what is the image of god.” For me, it has always been more powerful to make human preciousness a grounding truth than to make it a conclusion arising from data or reason.
Well you are a fine young man and perhaps because of that, it didn’t occur to me that you intended a jab. It’s one of the great questions of all time, and perhaps the most obvious question that should animate Peaceful Science. It can take us to religion and also to neuroscience and philosophy. I guess I thought this would be obvious to all by now, but we’ve already established my crippling naivete…
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I’ve been around enough YECs to know that this can be meant as a gotcha question (“if there’s no God, why do you love anyone?” and other such nonsense). I just wanted to make sure you knew I didn’t mean it like that. Thank you for assuming the best of me.
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Have you ever had a cat tell you “I’m not hungry, but you should feed my brother”?
Permit me to doubt that the contributions of Christian theology would be considered important by anyone other than Christians or say anything meaningful about what it means to be human. And feel free to disagree, if you must.
What do you believe PeacefulScience can offer to non-Theist Evolutionists?
That question is irrelevant to anything I said, and so would its answer be.
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The only reasonable way to wed deep-time evolution and geology with a creator paradigm is some form of minimalist deism (or perhaps pantheism). And even that approach is not ideal. But at least the time scales make some sense. As Einstein noted, theism’s preoccupation with a “personal God” is a childish and paternalistic notion. Any type of creator entity powerful enough to set the conditions for the emergence of a universe, including life, is unlikely to monitor sparrows falling out of nests…
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