(November 12, 2018 at 1:40 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 12, 2018 at 12:58 pm)Whateverist Wrote: "Whip up" .. "create", what verb do you prefer to refer to the linkage by which all that higher intelligence produced all the life we see?
I don't believe that higher intelligence created life. I believe higher intelligence created this planet (yes using chemicals that already existed) and our flesh, but all conscious life is eternal and we are just inhabiting these fleshly bodies.
Do you think all animals are similarly animated by an external factor that is eternal? Or does the ethereal component only congeal to sapient critters? If so I wonder if you think some particularly intelligent bonobos make the cut while some particularly dense humans miss out?