(May 23, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: Are you serious? Just so I understand what you're saying, is it your opinion that living things just know how make copies of themselves without any plan, purpose, or reason that directed or instructed them to do so?
Obviously this is true. Before the new life even has a body it demonstrably does know how to assemble itself. At this point it has no brain or mind and yet the know-how is obvious. The mother's body does not put the new creature together. In my mother's body my organism-to-be assembled itself according to plan inherent in my DNA. This is nothing to skip over lightly. It is amazing, miraculous if you like. But it is no indicator that a band of tiny brownies lives inside every woman waiting for the opportunity to read that DNA like a blue print and get to work. This is more miraculous than some god's sleight of hand trick. It is a mystery, perhaps the mystery.
[This will be where foolish theists will rush in and proclaim that their beliefs explain it all. Of course it won't explain why they believe that. The truth is probably that they can't tolerate a mystery so they'd prefer to give it the name god.]
