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Thread #142452   Message #3301199
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Feb-12 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Iona:    "You see, without your borrowing from a Christian worldview, you can't define those things. So Don, really you have no argument. By your worldview, anything goes and you have no basis for reason."

I do NOT have to borrow from the Christian "worldview" to define good and evil. Thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Siddhârtha Gautama Buddha, and many, MANY religious figures who existed LONG before Jesus, not to mention MOSES, I might add—have given answers to the question of Good and Evil. These answers are remarkably similar, and they pre-date the birth of Jesus by centuries.

And here is something YOU don't seem capable of understanding. And that is that one can figure out the nature of Good and Evil on one's own. Without having to turn to some religious figure.

That which promotes and enriches life is GOOD.

That which is inimical to life is EVIL.

I don't need the Boy Scout Manual. Nor, for that matter, Jesus, to tell me the nature of Good and Evil.

Perhaps, however, YOU do.

Don Firth