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Staleek -> RE: Let's try leaving religion out of it.... (6/5/2016 11:11:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who observed that if anything could be said to be proven about God, it was that He really likes beetles, wasn't it?
As far as death and entropy goes, no question that everything needs to break down eventually. My point about the human body, though is that it often tends to break down piecemeal, with certain parts packing up catastrophically while the rest of it is still ticking over nicely. This is a really weird approach to built in obsolescence that implies even incompetence or a lack of forethought on the part of the designer. [:D]
But that is the beauty of it all. Life is actually perfect in its imperfection. An organism doesn't stop all at once, it slowly degrades until it is too weak to flee from a predator or is too slow to hunt for food. If life is driven whatever is behind it is genius because of these flaws.
As an analogy - perfect video game AI is really easy to code. It's easy to make a bot that will fight perfectly, block instantly, shoot with perfect accuracy and utilize resources perfectly. The challenge for game developers is to create an intelligence which is flawed enough to compete with humans without being too easy. Life works without catastrophic bugs, lock ups, or without supreme creatures which dominate (even humans have predators which hunt us in our artificial environments, ask anyone with AIDS). It works very well, I can see why many consider it to be a reason to believe in something beyond corporeal existience.
Having said that there is absolutely nothing about nature that suggests god is a male, bearded, white dude with a black persons voice who sits on a cloud deciding to burn people for eternity for not repenting ten minutes before they got run over in the street. And I've certainly never seen anything to suggest that dark skinned Middle-Eastern man who opposed white western occupiers in his homeland (such as Abu Musab Al-Zakarwi, Osama Bin-Laden, or Jesus Christ) have any special connection to such a hypothetical entity.
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