(June 5, 2017 at 11:52 am)Whateverist Wrote: Call it a just-so story if you like but "evolution" is taken and doesn't refer to a guided or end-driven process.
But I appreciate your argument: in the past people believed stuff we all know is wrong now. You're like the heroic individual who was right, while of course I and pretty much everyone else correspond to the ignorant masses. Therefore, just like in past, you are right and everyone else is wrong. That is one might fine argument, at least for someone who has only recently earned his moron belt so far.
Take some air.
Put this air down in the water.
What you think she will do Whatever?
I tell you.
She will try her best to emerge and reach the top where she will rejoice the big mass of air.
Evolution of the consciousness work in the same way.
Millions or billions of years ago the supreme magician put part of his consciousness down down down in the slumber of matter as a game to please him and this universal game goes on and on for ever.
In the meantime this latent consciousness wakes up and slowly slowly try to reemerge from the slumber stage in order to rejoice the supreme mind that project her in the slumber stage.
As it is natural for the air to get out the unnatural situation of being in the water also for a latent consciousness is natural to regain her state of full consciousness.
Atheism does not help to understand how the whole system works but as that air refuse to stay submerged in the water also the consciousness refuse the dogma
to be submerged in the matter, in the plant stage in the animal stage and even in the human stage and therefore she will try again and again to get out that state until she will succeed and at the end the dogma will lose and be defeated. 
