I was evaluating this in terms of what you have said earlier is that things
like human rights, morality, etc. comes from evolution. In other words, I
was taking what you wrote in the context of your earlier writings.
I never said that they come from evolution, I said that they evolved. The two ideas are not even directly related, so it appears as if you were just looking to take a potshot at my personal philosophy.
Jefferson was a very complex man.
Yes he was. And I have absolutely no doubt that he would have no problem in interpreting his reference to a creator as I wish to. He said:
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit the right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others." -- Letter to Edward Dawse, 1803
He clearly believed in God, and the reference to self evident
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a creator is, I assumeHe clearly believed that people have the right to believe what they want to, and to me the term creator is clearly ambiguous. He could have made it unambiguous by saying God instead of creator, he did not.
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