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The trouble, from a philosopher's point of view, of positing God as the origin of life, read "human life", is that it merely pushes the question back a generation, so to speak. Where did God come from? What was His origin? It is, ultimately, and unanswerable question. But life evolving, from as yet undiscovered origins, requires no outside input that demands another level of explanation. As Richard Dawkins says, evolution is a crane; it can build taller buildings starting from the ground. Miraculous, I agree with. The universe I see is awesome in every sense. But also self-contained, as far as anyone has been able to show.
posted by
mousehop
on August 20, 2008 at 7:15 AM
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Re: The Miracle of Life!
I agree with you entirely, Aardi. Let's keep this attitude strong! What do you say?
Gerald
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GEPRUITT
on August 13, 2008 at 3:08 PM
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Re: Great post, it made me think.
Thank you, Callista, for your thoughts! You, and every one else, is, indeed, a miracle in and by itself. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop all the bickering between us and work together to get more answers??? But, then, again, maybe that's asking for another miracle!!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on August 13, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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Great post, it made me think.
It made me think that if each human realized what a miracle their birth was how much more they could accomplish and how much better they would be able to live their lives. This should be the first thing we teach our children, they are miracles and treat them as such.
posted by
jeansaw
on August 13, 2008 at 8:19 AM
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The Miracle of Life!
Sure is a miracle no matter what angle of approach you take. There will be some who will say that it is simply a given and therefore not a miracle. Making such a statement about something so gloriously magnificent as this given Life is a miracle in itself again: The Miracle denying it's miraculousness is possibly the most miraculous of all miracles.
Even if I ignore the experience of pure original awareness, I have experienced way too many instances of co-incidence to ignore it from the point of view of statistical probability and to doubt that there is a higher overarching intelligence than our own limited to a single physical body intelligence. Also, any hive behavior (including that of humans) is a minor reflection of the ever increasingly more encompassing intelligences that pervades the entire endless universe. To my mind to get stuck on the level just above the intelligences governing the millions of cells in our bodies and the organs they form is a tad narrow minded.
Great post.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on August 13, 2008 at 2:26 AM
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