RE: Thoughts on next video...
April 4, 2013 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 5:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 4, 2013 at 5:34 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Um, because you said so. Or at least that's what I thought you were saying.Nah, I just said they didn't have civilization, assuming that civilization is a requirement for any of these things is to paint the patina of human experience across the cosmos without explaining why you have done so (I've already offered my explanation for why you have done this)- all the while using that same human experience as the yardstick for evaluating the "awesomeness" of other forms of life that do or might exist - and what that would, at least to you, seem to imply.
MY examples were non-human civilizations that HAD achieved these things, however alien to ours they might be.
Now, personally, I can't see why human civilization - or any civilization -would be a better example of favor than the plethora of beetles - or the range of birds...and I don't even have to leave this rock. If we wanted to point at anything as an example, all life on this planet serves that purpose equally as well. Trouble is - I'm not sure why we're looking for "favor" from an inhuman force (be it evolution or god).
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