Re: Conflicts and confrontation

In a message dated 6/1/2006 6:41:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mrb22667@kansas.net writes:
But have any of you, because of your
evolutionary beliefs, found your faith enhanced -- built up? I think I
remember
some of the "Perspectives" Essays authored by many on this list come closest
to
expressing a positive faith-evolution association. But the fact seems to
remain
that for most TEs their faith 'tolerates' and 'accomodates' evolution at best

--
is weakened and even destoryed by it at worst. 
Merv,
Yes. 
Link to my essay "HBES 2000: The annual meeting of the Human Behavior and 
Evolution Society" on Kevin MacDonald's web site: 
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Tooby&Pinker.htm
My essay on HBES 2000:
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/HBES2000.htm
I didn't exactly build up my faith. I gave my self up. Enjoy HBES2000.
To appreciate the adaptive nature of religion see especially the section on 
Calvinism in my review of D.S.Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral:
http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol3no2/rf-wilsona.html
If any of this interests you, I have an unpublished paper True Religion: 
Biblical Symbols from a Darwinian Perspective that will certainly interest you.
rich faussette