"... On Aug 18, 12:14 pm, DarkwaterBlight <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> "Of what good is thought and creativity if it > is not shared with others? If a person is monastic in the extreme -- > a hermit with no contact whatsoever with anyone else -- of what good, > what use, what value, is that person's thoughts and creativity?"-Gruff > > Now here is a good argument FOR intelligent design! Perhaps my > thinking is a bit skewd, but the answer to the question is that the > value would be equivalent to the entire universe! I'm not seeing how this is a good argument for intelligent design. >From here there seems no good argument for it while there are several good arguments for pure evolution and the admission that we simply don't know what was before the Big Bang. We can speculate -- and many have much to the detriment of our advancement -- but in the end it seems one must either admit that it is unknown or that all one has is a mere belief with no basis in reality. Given my earlier statement about the power of belief and the vast numbers of people over the eons who have believed in gods, it seems rather remarkable that none have appeared. I wonder if that means that belief in gods is an invalid concept. To rhetorically answer my own question about the value of a person's thoughts and creativity, to my thinking it is in the further advancement of human knowledge, wisdom and benefit.
