Quote:The Germans are coming.....................Maggots do not come from matter?
Maggots are the grub of pritty much every two winged insect, and as such the are first formed by the eggs within the mother which again are created by sperm and an egg cell and then grow through the mother taking up the required proteins needed for the eggs to grow, a maggot keeps growing through taking up food through whatever means that kind of maggot gains food (different from species to species) - all of which is basicaly matter.
The fact that maggots feed on matter does not really mean anything.
We are talking about the fact that mind must come from another mind.
The matter never generated mind and never will.
Without the flies (creatures with mind) to produced eggs that generated the maggots (creatures with mind) there was no way that rotting flesh would have generated the maggots.
I suggest you to look into Pasteur work to update your knowledge on the subject.
Quote:Any what makes you think that basic intincts are not handed down through development within the creation of the animal within the mothers womb or the egg?
Even the most basic intincts can be found present in for example - mentaly handicaped people - and therefor are almoust certainly handed down via biological process.
Learning capaceties are more or less an essential part of being a living species and could have easily be formed via evolution since those who didnt learn to adapt - died.
What this has got to do with my statement that............Maggots have mind. Every creature with mind never come out of matter and never will.............only Santa Claus knows.
Quote:Ok, sure! Go ahead and rant about how bad materialism is.
I already discussed this topic in which i make examples of how materialism can not give total peace of mind and therefore is not the goal of life.
Quote:But only after you threw away your laptop, mobile phone, coffee machine and money. Then left your house - and started a life as hunter - gatherer.
Material things are there to be used not to be elevated and warship as God although everything at the end is really part of God.
When my car start to rot i will dump it in the wrecker yard and then buy another car.
The same i will do with my body when it will start to rot.