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Thoughts on next video...
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RE: Thoughts on next video...
Which is the problem I'm talking about, again. Your measure of what is compelling or expected (even in an alien species) is that they have a civilization (would they need one? perhaps they were much better equipped than we and don't require it) and it's equal to or greater than our own. I'm not sure why this suggests any favor in the first place - and the metrics seem completely arbitrary to me in any case. I understand that you think civilization is super awesome...what I'm asking is this, if it isn't just a self interest and preference for human things, human stuffs - stuff thats like human things and human stuff - shoehorning human stuff into the fabric of the cosmos (anthro)

-in what way does civilization establish that any favor was granted - by anything (deist god or run of the mill evolution)?

An interesting and related aside (of the aside) in what way would the "deist model" or evolution favoring one thing or another differ from the model absent of the deist god, absent of any favor?
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Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 3, 2013 at 6:06 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 3, 2013 at 10:17 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 3, 2013 at 11:11 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 3, 2013 at 11:25 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by FallentoReason - April 3, 2013 at 11:51 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 4, 2013 at 12:12 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by FallentoReason - April 4, 2013 at 12:16 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 9:33 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 4, 2013 at 9:42 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Tonus - April 4, 2013 at 10:40 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 10:56 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 11:11 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 4, 2013 at 10:59 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 1:37 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 1:47 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 2:34 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 2:45 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 2:56 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 3:40 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 3:49 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 4:13 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 4:18 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Minimalist - April 4, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 5:34 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Tonus - April 4, 2013 at 4:23 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Neo-Scholastic - April 4, 2013 at 5:39 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 5:47 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Neo-Scholastic - April 4, 2013 at 5:58 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 4, 2013 at 7:37 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Neo-Scholastic - April 4, 2013 at 6:02 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Minimalist - April 4, 2013 at 7:00 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 7:14 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by Neo-Scholastic - April 4, 2013 at 10:24 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 8:59 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by DeistPaladin - April 5, 2013 at 9:41 am
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by MysticKnight - April 4, 2013 at 10:03 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 4, 2013 at 10:30 pm
RE: Thoughts on next video... - by The Grand Nudger - April 5, 2013 at 10:45 am

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