tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post3560598079921961980..comments2024-03-27T00:15:41.321-07:00Comments on Kill The Afterlife: Michael Egnor Gives Meat a Bad NameAaron Kinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059982934663353474noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-27201253562861203162007-07-31T19:03:00.000-07:002007-07-31T19:03:00.000-07:00Great point Will E.They sneak in words to smear th...Great point Will E.<BR/><BR/>They sneak in words to smear their opponent. Mere, just, only, limited to, accidental, etc.Aaron Kinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059982934663353474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-22292135188798232262007-07-31T14:21:00.000-07:002007-07-31T14:21:00.000-07:00I've heard this kind of ridiculous reductionism fr...I've heard this kind of ridiculous reductionism from theists of various stripes. They're so used to thinking that only a god can give them dignity that they cannot figure out that we have dignity solely by being human. The concept of human dignity is pretty much absent from the bible, of course... <BR/><BR/>The weasel words are "mere" and "just" and "only." They say, "If we're JUST the products of random evolution, and there is ONLY this life, and we are MERE meat, why aren't we killing and raping all the time?" Ewww... just what is going on inside these people's heads?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-40229417152602724012007-07-25T23:56:00.000-07:002007-07-25T23:56:00.000-07:00Well said, Habitualheretic. Perhaps we should star...Well said, Habitualheretic. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps we should start throwing around some of these phrases: <BR/><BR/>Mere creation<BR/>Mere immaterialism<BR/>Mere GodAaron Kinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059982934663353474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-91324990690230511502007-07-25T19:04:00.000-07:002007-07-25T19:04:00.000-07:00Christian apologist C.S. Lewis talked about "Mere ...Christian apologist C.S. Lewis talked about "Mere Christianity," religious nuts condemn "Mere Science," and now Egnor is talking about "Mere Meat!" <BR/><BR/>It's damn near enough to make a man want to become a Science-loving, Vegetarian, Atheist! Oh, hell...too late!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-30776382407871486212007-07-24T17:31:00.000-07:002007-07-24T17:31:00.000-07:00Beakerslion, Well put!Toomanytribbles, I love the ...Beakerslion, <BR/><BR/>Well put!<BR/><BR/>Toomanytribbles, <BR/><BR/>I love the sentient meat story. It gets me every time! :DAaron Kinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059982934663353474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-52156074716208752892007-07-24T17:27:00.000-07:002007-07-24T17:27:00.000-07:00what? sentient meat??what? <A HREF="http://toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2006/11/theyre-made-out-of-meat.html" REL="nofollow">sentient meat</A>??helensotiriadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07740816003291428890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975474.post-80103348258943084562007-07-24T17:20:00.000-07:002007-07-24T17:20:00.000-07:00Egnor has earned the right to call himself a meath...Egnor has earned the right to call himself a meathead, and that's all.<BR/><BR/>Ectoderm, Mesoderm, Endoderm. If you're too ignorant to know the difference, shut the fuck up about the human brain. Yours is too empty to contain an opinion.<BR/><BR/>And finally, the cry of the closet Nazi: "Don't confuse us with your facts, you evil Intellegentsia! We don't understand you, so we don't have to believe you! Knowledge smoledge to your neurons and protons and photon-motons! So there! Print your thesis and we'll burn it!"breakerslionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14327290369084118043noreply@blogger.com