RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 26, 2013 at 11:59 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 12:06 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(August 26, 2013 at 11:54 am)discipulus Wrote: Do you think life first began on earth because it was put here by an intelligent life form that existed already or do you think life originated as a result of certain chemical reactions interacting with matter? If your view falls under neither of the above, then what is your view?
First, I'm not sure that the two options you've described are necessarily mutually exclusive.
Secondly, I have already told you, that given the evidence in favor of abiogenesis producing amino acids which are the building blocks of life, and the lack of evidence in favor of a magical appearance from dust, I find the former to be much more believable. That being said, I don't have enough knowledge to say that one or the other are absolutely true.
You understand that people can hold things as true in any number of varying degrees of certainty, right?
...and I believe we all identify ourselves with a certain channel of information that presents itself in consciousness. I believe that consciousness exists in the mind. I believe the mind to be material because there is no evidence for an alternative. In the light of all of this...When the physical material body dies (brain included), the identity we prescribe to the consciousness it contains dies too. This seems believable given the evidence.
