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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
Why? Why would I create a leaf?
That's part of my point. What purpose does a leaf have? Why is it so great? Why would it be created by something other than accident?
You call me arrogant. At least I'm willing to admit that maybe in the grand scheme of things, we humans and even life itself are not so great. Why? Because we are the ones who created the concept of "great".
Now why is a leaf anymore astounding, from the perspective of a non-anthropomorhpic stance beyond life, than the phenomena on lifeless planets, the phenomena in the "voids" of space, etc?
It only seems important because of our bias as living humans. If that isn't arrogance, I don't know what is! We create a god in our own image, then give him credit for everything around us!
And getting back to something earlier that made no sense to me whatsoever: DNA being a problem for evolution...
It doesn't appear that way here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...ting-evolution |
You have, in my opinion, was it called "hedonic adaptation".
You don't think a new born child is anything special, or a mountain range or an ocean or the vast evening sky...you're bored with it...
"big deal"
"life is cheap"
"we're nothing special"
"it all just happened"
This is why the Atheistic point of view is something I detest.