(January 11, 2016 at 4:00 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 3:16 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: And what would that mean, for intention to be an inherent part of reality? Even if God values human life, that's just one more agent's project. No, this doesn't get around the problem.
It's not just that God values life, and that is why life is sacred. It's that that is how we were made. It is the very nature of our being, and inherent to who/what we are. Like I said in my first post, in the same way that wetness is inherent to water, value is inherent to life. You can't separate the two.
Now you're getting confused. There is a difference between life being inherently valuable and value being an inherit property of life. I believe the latter but not the former. Values arises along with life because life brings with it a necessary project or goal, that being survival. The survival of a living thing can only present itself to a thinking being, because without an agent intending a particular goal, the value of a thing is not fixed by its natural properties. Value requires agency. Simply pointing out that where agency occurs, so does value, doesn't get you to the goal of life being inherently valuable. That two phenomena co-occur isn't any kind of evidence that the one is an objective fact about the other.