RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
November 20, 2018 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2018 at 1:24 am by Paleophyte.)
(November 19, 2018 at 10:36 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(November 19, 2018 at 8:45 pm)TwoKnives99 Wrote: Everenna,
Exodus 21:23-25 is referring to lex talionis, the law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offence committed in kind and degree.
That is not karma.
Karma would be 'if you cut out someone's left eye, you shall eventually lose your left eye in this life or the next'
Vengeance is 'he took your eye, you may take his, for it is proportionate retribution'
Vengeance and karma are not the same.
These laws were to be carried out by a government of people not by individuals utilizing vigilante justice. It is part of a justice system and still holds true today (capital punishment). Just to clarify.
Dear sweet dying Jesus writhing on the cross! Can none of you theists think outside your own bubbles long enough to figure out karma?
Capital and corporal punishment is vengeance. It doesn't matter if it's an individual or a government that carries out the sentence.
I'll grant you one thing though, capital punishment will get you karma. Just not the sort you want. That's the sort of behaviour that gets you reincarnated as a slaughter-house chicken for a few thousand lives until you get the point.
(November 19, 2018 at 10:46 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 19, 2018 at 6:54 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: With more than 99 percent of these designs producing species that went extinct because they didn't have what they needed to survive in their environment, the designer can't be too intelligent.
Included in that 99 per cent are mold spores (not conscious life), bacterias (not consciuos life), other germs (not conscious life), plants and other vegetation (not conscious life) some insects (and there 10 quintillion insects alive and well just in the US right now so gives a f-ck if some went extinct) and some animals. There was probably a very good reason for it too, as there always is a good reason for everything that happens in our universe, whether we are aware of that reason at the time or not. Also there are 11.7 million different species of life alive and well on this planet right now, with 7.8 million different species of conscious life . Additionally, there are now 7.53 Billion humans on this planet and that is way, way more than ever before in history.
That "fuck 99% of all species that ever lived" attitude bodes poorly for your next life.
The universe has no good reasons. It has no reasons at all. Reasons are what sentient creatures use to explain the universe. You're as likely to get mercy from the ocean as you are to get reasons from the universe.
7.8 Million species of conscious life?!? Are you counting the cockroaches as sentient or something equally daft?!?
And you think 7.5 Billion humans is a good thing? Have you ever seen a pond after the algae bloom goes bad? Tell me what looks wise or even sane about this picture to you: