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Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
No, it wouldn’t. We’d just find some new thing that’s also true. Two things can be true, lol.

This is another fantasy of yours. The hope that one thing really can prove too much, overturning all of the things that irk you about...all of the things.

Doesn’t work that way.

In mere reality, there’s no need to protect evolutionary biology from consciousness. The point of assuming your wishes and dreams is to show that even if they came true, that wouldn’t justify the assertions you’ve made from that hypothetical base.

That -is- how this works.

For example, assume that we (somehow) discover not only that were are created beings...but that any fact which could have established this was so well hidden from us it could only be the work of some intervening god.

It would still be the case that the observations we made regarding how organisms evolved were true, and that discovery itself would show why we were well within reason to believe the thing that reality was turned into a giant trick to present itself as.

The theory that bunches your panties wasn’t full of any holes, reality was intentionally hull bored so that we couldn’t help but see it the way we did.

This is the ridiculously implausible but friendliest outcome of discovering some silly god. It is far, far more likely that if we ever discovered a god, it wouldn’t change our understanding of evolutionary development at all. Put simply, it would only show us that people told tall tales about real divinity.

I’m sure this won’t be hard for you to accept as an Adventist. Your beliefs, fantasies, wishes, and dreams will forever remain as much in the absence of evidence...and if you ever came across any evidence, it would still have to contend with whatever else is already in evidence. Things like modern synth.
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RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins) - by The Grand Nudger - August 5, 2019 at 10:58 am
RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins) - by Cod - August 5, 2019 at 5:44 pm
RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins) - by Sal - August 6, 2019 at 12:58 pm
RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins) - by chimp3 - August 25, 2019 at 11:49 pm

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