Claes Persson wrote:
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:10 AM
> Subject: {W&P} Common Sense
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> In a message dated 7/22/2002 5:52:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> A theory like the theory of evolution don't require "faith in spite of
> what the common sence tells you". It's not claiming to be the final
> truth either. It's just what we have to accept as the logical answere
> until some more facts makes it reasonable to change the theory. To
> expect more than that is to expect utopia. And utopia is what most
> "wholy books" deals with under influence of a Gods will.
>
> =====
> Well .....
> I'm definitely into common sense over higher education...
> And when I look at the world, MY common sense tells me that all of this
> couldn't possibly be just an accident.
>
> I agree. It's not just an accident. My common sense tells me that it is
> the evolution in action and further more: it's still going on. And it
> never stops. We may think that we are the top of the ladder, but it's
> only so far.
>
> There's more to it -- I don't know for sure what it is -- but I know
> it's there. You can call it God or a General Electric Food Processor for
> all I care -- but it's not just a mere accident.
>
> Exactly, there is more coming as humans more and more act and behave as
> the cancer of this planet. Of course it's there. The best and most
> actual name is the DNA-molecule and all that the DNA has changed us and
> all other living things into is no accident, but no God has had anything
> to do with it. It's chemistry. Clever chemistry it may seem but under
> the law of try and error.
>
> If you look at the planet earth from the outside it's not difficult to
> see that one of the spiecis has gone wild with stripmining,
> deforresting, fast burning the resources and polluting the atmosphere,
> and thereby leaving the rest of the spiecis less and less space to live
> in. Like bacterias we are fast growing in numbers and are destoying our
> own enviroment and soon (in evolutionary terms) face famine. Is that
> also Gods will? Or can we hope for a divine interferrence (a God?) that
> neutralize humans irresponsible behavior? Should we hope for this and
> like stupid animals or bacteeria just utterly destoy our enviroment or
> can humans use their common sense and counteract the effects? The Kyoto
> agreement is a good atempt in that direction, but to few have
> understoood or want to understand the need. Some - most of us - strive
> for "the good life" that will not do any good for the enviroment, I'm
> afraid. I hope I'm worng.
>
> Claes
> §( :8-)
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Millions of species went extinct long before human beings were on the
scene. It doesn't matter. That's life. That's how it works. Unsuccessful
species disappear. Successful ones survive and prosper. The human is
successful. There's no room for herds of millions of buffalo _and_ great
cities and bustling civilization. Leaving the earth as a living zoo may
appeal to certain esthetic tastes, but it is a luxury we can't afford.
HUMAN BEINGS come first.
Modern, civilized countries are learning how to re-forest lands rather
than stripping the timber and leaving the bare earth to be eroded.
That's one example of the many ways that modern economies are learning
to live the good life while protecting the planet's ability to renew the
resources we need.
As to the question of God...
You seem to think that the "clever chemistry" simply arose out of
nothingness and started to work its magic on inert matter. That sounds
like God by another name. You still haven't dealt with the mystery that
Lawana and I have acknowledged. Where did the impetus for that evolution
to begin come from? There is a great area of knowledge that your
superficial science can't deal with.
How could mankind's subtle, complex intelligence arise from
unintelligent mud? How could a dumb, cold chemical reaction produce,
finally, Vivaldi's "Four Seasons?"
There are large questions that science can't answer, much less answer.
Those who take refuge in atheism are merely ignoring the mystery, not
solving it.
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