re: #501 el guape

The difficulty I have with the materialist worldview is morality - if everything is essentially material, why do we rail against radical islamic extremism as if it were wrong? Where does the idea that Hamas using children as meat shields is morally offensive?

So let’s return to the basic creationism/evolution portion of the thread. You have “difficulty…with the materialist worldview.” But science is a study of that material world. It is not a study of morality, or religion. It is the study of the ‘how’ of existence, our living world, our energy systems, our everything that can be sense, viewed, tested… etc.

You, from your worldview which is religious in context must view the world as only a god created entity and you ignore the ‘how.’ You find fault with us because we are unwilling to refocus attention on your worldview because it is contrary to law, and is an abomination as ‘science.’
You compound the problem by changing the subject, and essentially stating that without an absolute ‘Moral Law-giver’ (god), there can be no moral behavior. Again a reliance on your religious worldview, not facts, not tested hypothese, just your faith.
But this whole discussion becomes pointless, because you want to impose a religious doctrine on a non-religious subject.