RE: Karma poll
December 11, 2016 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2016 at 12:36 pm by Tonus.)
(December 11, 2016 at 9:44 am)Little Rik Wrote: Don't forget that I already knock down the story that we suppose to be more advanced than the stone and cave people
No, you didn't. The "negative" you listed would be no different if they had no technology whatsoever. For example:
Quote:People can advance forward in a wheel chair but their body is ko.
Without a wheelchair, this person is still incapable of walking but with a wheelchair, he is able to get around efficiently and quickly. His condition is not the result of technological progress, but his quality of life is improved by it. Go back and look at your other examples and it's the same thing. This argument is even more stupid than the original one about karma! Seems like everyone else is progressing except you, Rik.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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