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well, actually
when you consider the chaotic nature of the universe there probably is a lot that is unnecessary.
like evolution -- has to go through a lot of organisms that don't make it in order to get one that does.
like a crowd -- why are all those people there?
they don't all need to be there.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 16, 2004 at 6:56 AM
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In order for there to be a God, part 7.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on August 15, 2004 at 7:17 PM
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Okay old man
But in the end all organisms are machines.
It is just in how we view them as to what name we put on them.
I used machine here because it is easier to understand the working of machine due to the fact that we can easily see the workings, while with an organism we do not see the parts in the same way and so it is harder ot see them as individual parts
We also know that there are levels at which we can strip down organisms and they can still function. A man can loose parts of his body and still live. We have organs that have no real use that we are often better without. Some animals can be cut up, but as long as the important parts are there the creature will still live. But an organism has very little control over the basic functions of its body. We breath, our blood flows, we need rest, we need food, we grow, our bodies heal and all those things are part of us, but we have no direct control over them. Our bodies are set up so that all that works with in us works without us having to worry about it. It would just make sense that that is how the universe is set up as well. The universe itself, since it is not aware as it is, does not worry about any of its functions.
posted by
kooka_lives
on August 15, 2004 at 2:01 PM
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yew talkin bout masheens
i talkin bout organisms
all the organism is important
there is much not seen in the universe.
huge clouds of pre-organic matter (discovered but not seen by the eye) that could have been precusors of life on earth and maybe even the source of all these new viruses that go around -- hmmmm.
dark matter that cannot be seen but is felt -- basically in the expansion of the universe -- speed thereof that is.
every inch of the universe is filled with something that is important to the whole.
like that time machine story where a boy is sent back to prehistoric times and is adjured to stay on a pathway, but he gets off and follows a beautiful butterfly and catches it -- comes back and the world he came from is changed from being beautiful to being pretty ugly -- just because he caught that one butterfly.
the action of the tiniest affects the whole somehow.
"for want of a nail, a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe, a horse was lost, for want of a horse, a rider was lost, for want of a rider a battle was lost.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 15, 2004 at 12:08 PM
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