. . . That underrated community likes my view that Darwinian natural rights is an oxymoron. This post is double-down shameless self-promotion, insofar as it also includes a way of getting to an article of mine in the great NEW ATLANTIS. I myself am not a member of the intelligent design community, because I’m too influenced by Walker Percy’s view concerning the “discontinuity” between members of our species and the rest of nature. The being who wonders necessarily wanders and all that. So perhaps the intelligent designers might join Darwinian Larry in calling ME too existentialist, although John in his brilliant musings on friendship below actually is right in saying that all I’m saying is that there’s an irreducible Augustinian dimension to who we are.
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