(March 13, 2014 at 12:35 pm)professor Wrote: I now understand.
I should have promoted natural selection to the status of a god, making it's decisions on what it wants to keep and what it wants to throw out. Very good.
You have gotten rid of that pesky god you didn't like, and gotten a new one instead.
Well done.
That would be one definition of a god, but not the usual one. Generally speaking gods are more anthropomorphized and have some sort of supernatural side. They are not defined as simply the environment itself. But whatever floats your boat. If you wish to define a god as anything anybody believes, you have pretty much destroyed atheism but not in a way anybody will pay attention to.
A man's got to believe in something.... I believe I'll have another drink. WC Fields (possibly Humphrey Bogart)
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
