(February 20, 2015 at 9:35 am)robvalue Wrote: Right, in my opinion, life is nothing special. Some stuff moves around more than other stuff, but it's all just physics and chemistry. We're built from the same stuff as non-life, just in different configurations.
The mystery to me is consciousness, it seems paradoxical and impossible to get round because it seems to separate "me" (consciousness) from "my body" (brain). But scientifically I see no basis for them to be separate. It's some sort of product of the way the brain works, is my best guess. "Where" it is, is the question... but the question probably doesn't even make sense.
Right, life is not special. Bacteria and cockroaches have been around alot longer and way outnumber our species. But somehow theists think by accepting that, that we cannot find value in the finite time we have, which is really bullshit. Atheists can and do value life. We simply skip the superstition to explain anything.
The difference between the atheist and the believer is we accept our modern knowledge and don't cling to old explanations that were never true in the first place. It was understandable that people made bad guesses when they didn't know any better, but we know better now.
