aperson wrote:real life wrote:Lightwizard wrote:God has also been equated to Edison -- apparantly he/she/it is a trial-and-error research and development engineer. What's his biggest mistake, considering what life form has done the most damage on Earth, to flora and fauna and to themselves? Evolution has the answer, religion has failed miserably in providing the answer other than some whistling-in-the-dark wishful thinking. God is creative in the way the Ash Can school of art was creative -- putting crap together to make more crap. Really requires a great deal of talent.
You seem a bit conflicted, Lightwiz.
If evolution is responsible for life as we now see it (including the absence of the many species that are now extinct), then it is evolution that has failed you miserably.
And evolution has caused the most damage to flora and fauna, since it is (in your view) evolution that produced mankind.
Everything man is, results from evolution, right?
So anything man does in an attempt to survive is part of evolution, right?
If other species can't stand up to man, then too tough. It's survival of the fittest, right?
How can you blame God for something you claim to believe that evolution has caused?
Evolution is responsible for damage to flora and fauna, and the birth of mankind, but (in you view) God is responsible for everything, and so he is responsible for evolution.
God needs only to look at the beginning and end result of evolution to endorse it. Have less capable species actually died or been incorporated into the species that have survived? All creatures eventually die. The success of a species is based upon the will of the species not the will of God. The will of God is served only by the ultimate outcome which God has predicted. Humans not only carry the genes for the successful creatures but the less successful creatures too.
Just because humans do not have scales for skin does not mean that with one flip of a DNA switch we could not grow them so nothing has actually died things have just changed from within.
Rocks, plants and some animals may be (are) more intelligent than humans...
Evolution is intelligence moving from the physical (rocks) to the biological (humans). Nothing really dies or is lost because the intelligence is equally divided between the physical and biological. If a creature has less biological intelligence then they exhibit more physical intelligence.
Like a dogs sense of smell and hearing are physical intelligence that humans do not have (to the same degree) because we have more biological intelligence...
RL's mainspring has just sprung. Puck is having a laugh attack.
