(September 9, 2011 at 5:20 pm)Rhythm Wrote: And yet all evidence seems to suggest that we are machines. Wonderful, fantastic, incredibly sophisticated...but in the end, machines.
(amusingly I was seeking a major in mechanical engineering)
That seems to be our major philosophical difference (Atheists and Theists) Atheists are determined to reduce humanity to deterministic machines, Theists see us as much more than mere machines. This is why an atheistic worldview can easily accept the notion of "self destruction" as an option when the machine is not "fully functional" where the theist values all life as "sacred" because it goes beyond merely mechanistic views of humanity.
