If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)

[bennyboy]

Except that it's just a rehash of the weak anthropic principle. You can't have sphincters in a universe unless the capacity for sphincters is already intrinsic to the universe.

That's true, you can't. The difference is that mind is unlike all the other things we categorize. It is the one absolutely intangible thing that even hardcore physicalists must accept and incorporate. Sphincters are a child of other physical processes: tension in protein chains, fluidity of water, etc. Mind is not really a child of anything-- it's a lone, brute fact, and does therefore deserve special categorization and consideration.