RE: Does human life have INHERENT value?
June 21, 2015 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 11:00 pm by JuliaL.)
(June 21, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yes, I believe human life has inherent value. That means it is itself valuable. It is not conditional. It is not valuble only if other people value it. It is valuable because it is. That is the very nature of it.
In the same way that grass is green, life is valuable.
Inherent is the key word on my OP question. ;-)
Would human life have value if God didn't value it?
It would seem He doesn't as His actions to preserve it are indistinguishable from the mechanistic activity of natural law.
If no difference can ever be found between two explanations then there is no difference between them.
If a claim is made that natural law created by God is what provides an organized universe in which life can persist, some explanation is owed as to why so much of the universe is intensely hostile to human life.
(June 21, 2015 at 10:40 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: the human brain is the most organized form of matter yet discovered in the universe, also, from the atheist perspective with no god(s) yet having been shown to exist, that human brain is the culmination of the Big Bang and Darwinism to date; whatever the word 'value' means, it needs to start there.My bold.
I have to hate this 'human brain is the most complex yada yada."
It's just so obviously and self servingly false.
Persistent repetition doesn't make it true.
How 'bout two brains working in concert?
A village?
A society?
A society and its supporting ecosystem?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
