RE: If religion is fairy tale and isn't something to be even taken seriously, then...
May 2, 2013 at 7:02 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2013 at 7:05 am by pocaracas.)
Money has the value people give it.
eg. I want to sell a car. You want to give me some paper in exchange for the car. I refuse your paper, because I see no value in it.... I cannot use the paper to acquire other things because no one else sees any value in it.
But if sufficient people attribute value to that paper, then it becomes valuable and, given enough such papers, may be worth a car.
Nowadays, paper money has the worth that governments attribute to it... and people living under those governments automatically attribute the same value.
However, there are some people who view the government's attribution of value to paper money as abusive, misleading, false... leading to lack of faith in the monetary system. Paper money loses worth... but we still need to trade, we need a replacement, since we are aware that direct trade is not feasible... some are heralding the good properties of the Bitcoin system... perhaps it's not perfect, perhaps we'll end up settling for something else.... but I see more and more businesses accepting Bitcoins. Bitcoins are gaining in worth, in value, as more and more people accept them as currency.
There are natural self-replicating non-organic mineral structures that we know of.... we call them crystals.
Would it be a stretch of the imagination, if those crystals happened to lend a hand in the abiogenesis process?
eg. I want to sell a car. You want to give me some paper in exchange for the car. I refuse your paper, because I see no value in it.... I cannot use the paper to acquire other things because no one else sees any value in it.
But if sufficient people attribute value to that paper, then it becomes valuable and, given enough such papers, may be worth a car.
Nowadays, paper money has the worth that governments attribute to it... and people living under those governments automatically attribute the same value.
However, there are some people who view the government's attribution of value to paper money as abusive, misleading, false... leading to lack of faith in the monetary system. Paper money loses worth... but we still need to trade, we need a replacement, since we are aware that direct trade is not feasible... some are heralding the good properties of the Bitcoin system... perhaps it's not perfect, perhaps we'll end up settling for something else.... but I see more and more businesses accepting Bitcoins. Bitcoins are gaining in worth, in value, as more and more people accept them as currency.
There are natural self-replicating non-organic mineral structures that we know of.... we call them crystals.
Would it be a stretch of the imagination, if those crystals happened to lend a hand in the abiogenesis process?
