(July 23, 2015 at 6:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote: However, I see the other side of the coin, too: everything any person has ever known required perception by a mind-- literally 100%, by definition, since that's what "know" means; so it seems to me a reasonable candidate for reality (i.e. a good guess) that the universe could have been created by a mindful entity or quantity.
A single cell 'knows' the difference between food and not. Time has the advantage of trying everything. The rest is simply evolution. Evolution is simply the product of what works. No intelligence needed for creation.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
