RE: “The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam
February 15, 2015 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2015 at 9:16 pm by paulpablo.)
Quote:The process of natural selection cannot distinguish between my zombie twin and me. Evolution selects properties according to their functional role, and my zombie twin performs all the functions that I perform just as well as I do; in particular he leaves around just as many copies of his genes. It follows that evolution alone cannot explain why conscious creatures rather than zombies evolved.
You just made up this zombie, it doesn't actually exist, no unconscious zombie has been able to breed.
Quote:In the world of science, there is no such thing as “assault course.” Science concretely deals with physical objects and physical forces. Anything, which has no physical properties, is out of the scope of science.
An assault course has physical properties.
Quote:Darwin developed his principle of natural selection by drawing on an analogy with artificial selection: the process of selective breeding to change the characteristics (whether anatomical, physiological, or behavioural) of a group of organisms. Natural selection is just elimination. There is nothing or no one who selects -- unlike the case of artificial selection. There is no agent of natural selection with a conscious or unconscious purpose for selecting this trait or that to be passed on.
I have to back track on what I said before, I worded a previous answer I gave you wrongly.
When I said there is no being doing any selecting, I actually meant there is no one being doing the selecting, and that natural selection isn't a conscious thing which is doing the selecting.
Because sexual selection I think according to some people is a part, an agent of natural selection and evolution, this makes anyone who is choosing a sexual partner an agent of natural selection who is making a choice to breed with a specific type of person and that results in the passing on of certain traits to the next generation . So there are choices being made within sexual selection but this isn't true for the entirety of what makes up natural selection.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
