Abiogenesis is impossible
May 5, 2014 at 3:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2014 at 3:22 am by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 5, 2014 at 1:19 am)whateverist Wrote: Given the times he lived in no doubt the pressures on Darwin not to go against religion were probably even greater than they've been on you, snowy. Fortunately he was a good deal brighter.
The apologetic tone found in the origin of species speaks to this in particular.
Darwin himself didn't like the ideas he was proposing, but was driven to by logical application of empirical observation.
Darwin had no stake in denying God. He had everything to lose, and yet he followed the evidence, no matter how uncomfortable the conclusions.
I don't know that you're able to appreciate the repercussions of this. Darwin isn't particularly revered in science because he rejected
God. He's revered because like Galileo, he asked the difficult questions and followed them to their conclusions, regardless of what it would do to his personal life.
Because that's what science is. Empiricism leading to conclusions, no matter how inconvenient to the individual.
And after all this, you still seem to believe your mind is something special, when the opposite seems to be true.
We are, by our very nature, presupposed to think we are smarter than we actually are. Because we are conscious, consciousness seems to assume our intelligence is greater than what we actually possess.
We still have stone-age individuals like yourself who misguidedly think our dim understanding of reality is somehow indicative of some higher consciousness beyond the cogito.
You are not as smart as you think you are, and no amount of religious indoctrination will raise you above what you think you know.