Can the materialist explain the origin of love?

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cho_pilo said:
Wow, I haven’t seen such worthless drivel since I read Twilight. Not one logical argument in there, you failed to create a reductio ad absurdum. Good job.
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Not one rational argument on your part - just irrational abuse…

Thanks for reviving the thread and enabling me to save it for future reference. 🙂
 
cho_pilo said:
Red herring, fallacy, try again. The truth is the truth regardless of whether or not we have free will or only the illusion of free will.

No it doesn’t, this is just another red herring fallacy.

And here I thought that the term “false dichotomy” was self-explanatory. You said, and I quote, “Either such nobility has been overrated or there has been some break in the continuity of human development.”

This is a false choice between two options because many other options have been deliberately left out. Beyond that it doesn’t follow logically from the rest of your OP.

Nice try, but I did provide an alternative explanation, one that is supported by logic and physical evidence. What’s your excuse?

No I didn’t. I merely raised the question of “so what if it is?” Your implicit conclusion that god must have made us does not logically follow from this premise. Either support your argument logically or concede that you don’t have the faintest clue what you’re talking about. Unlike you this is my main area of expertise, ethology is my meat and potatoes so to speak.

Asking that you support your contention in no way implies anything. I do know that there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the large variety of species on the planet(god, it seems, has an inordinate fondness for beetles) or the flawed craftsmanship that they appear to have suffered through. Looking at this through the lens of evolution causes it all to make sense. Surely you’d know that if you’d bothered to spend even five minutes researching the theory you’re attempting to disprove. It’s like I keep telling you theists, if you’re going to try to espouse an intelligent opinion on a topic, especially a scientific topic, then you’d better do your homework.

It’s not like this stuff is truly beyond you, if I can understand it then so can you if you truly put your mind to it.

And we start, again, with the assumptions. How do you know anything about my personal life or the emotions I experience. You know literally nothing about me except that I don’t believe in god, which means that you know nothing about me. I suggest that you leave the personal out of this and stick to the technical issues of your OP.

Straw man argument, fallacy, try again.
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No rational arguments, just very complicated irrational abuse - as usual!
 
tonyrey,

Please, point out the abuse. I’ll be glad to retract any abusive statements as soon as you point them out. However I will not concede the irrational bit, there’s not one logical fault in my arguments, not a single one. Beyond that everything I’ve said is supported by more than fifty years of rigorous experimentation, evolution is as much a fact as it is a fact that water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Like it or lump it, those are the facts.
 
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