RE: Argument against atheism
December 22, 2011 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2011 at 4:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"The perfection of senses and consciousness would then mean both omniscience and omnipotence."
Or perhaps in the end, survival favors complete ignorance and inability, selecting speed and fool-proofing of reproduction over all else (quite a few very successful organisms that fit this category). Our ideas of what perfection is or would mean hold no power over evolution. There are many more successful "dumb" creatures than smart ones. And a great many of the forms of life on this planet have no "power" whatsoever, let alone anything approaching "all-power" (which obviously nothing has). Just something to chew on. That anthropic bias I'm always talking about is pervasive....There was once the idea of evolution as a steady path of simple life becoming closer and closer to the "goal" of life which resembled, surprise..western scholars.
Or perhaps in the end, survival favors complete ignorance and inability, selecting speed and fool-proofing of reproduction over all else (quite a few very successful organisms that fit this category). Our ideas of what perfection is or would mean hold no power over evolution. There are many more successful "dumb" creatures than smart ones. And a great many of the forms of life on this planet have no "power" whatsoever, let alone anything approaching "all-power" (which obviously nothing has). Just something to chew on. That anthropic bias I'm always talking about is pervasive....There was once the idea of evolution as a steady path of simple life becoming closer and closer to the "goal" of life which resembled, surprise..western scholars.
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