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Also why do people insist on saying things like "Anything that we cannot understand will seem to be something magical/supernatural. "?It isn't true, if it were then nobody would ever have tried to understand anything- they would just have said "it's magic" nd given up.Also, I don't really undersand how this computer works in any detail- but I don't assume it's magic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#ConsequencesEuropeans turned to astrological forces, earthquakes, and the poisoning of wells by Jews as possible reasons for the plague's emergence. No one in the fourteenth century considered rat control a way to ward off the plague, and people began to believe only God's anger could produce such horrific displays. There were many attacks against Jewish communities. In August of 1349, the Jewish communities of Mainz and Cologne were exterminated. In February of that same year, Christians murdered two thousand Jews in Strasbourg........Some Christians targeted "various groups such as Jews, friars, foreigners, beggars, pilgrims",lepers and Roma, thinking that they were to blame for the crisis. Lepers, and other individuals with skin diseases such as acne or psoriasis, were singled out and exterminated throughout Europe
And we already know how the eye evolved.
Even very crummy eyes are very useful to have, and better eyes are more useful, and there's known examples in the animal kingdom with higher and higher efficiencies. There's no mystery at all.
Evolution doesn't have any aim, except survival. It tries stuff to boost survival. If that works, great, if not, it tries other stuff.It's not trying to burrow holes or anything else except achieve short-term survival that eventually leads to long term survival. A tube that didn't lead anywhere is a complete waste of time, and would probably get infected and then they would die.The human eye was built by random forces, and kept by reproduction- those eyes that worked better were kept, the others mostly died.
QuoteEvolution doesn't have any aim, except survival. It tries stuff to boost survival. If that works, great, if not, it tries other stuff.It's not trying to burrow holes or anything else except achieve short-term survival that eventually leads to long term survival. A tube that didn't lead anywhere is a complete waste of time, and would probably get infected and then they would die.The human eye was built by random forces, and kept by reproduction- those eyes that worked better were kept, the others mostly died.The best medical science simply cannot made a tear duct!!
Maybe evolution really has no aim but why would a mindless thing want to survive?, how can blind evolution have any aim? , that concepts beats me, something with an aim no matter how stupid suggests an intelligence of some sort!!
Life is said to have started about 3.5 billion years ago on earth. There was a primordial soup of some kind or the other, lightening flashing through methane and ammonia etc mixed with water and crashing boiling rocks and chemistryBut hey who made the rocks, the lightening, the earth the soup the earth and the universe Maybe we are just very very lucky little puny entities stuck out here in a corner of an ordinary galaxy amongst a hundred billion others. And we are very lonely beings the only sentient intelligent life forms in this unimaginably huge vast cosmos."What a collosal waste of space"Life has absolutely no meaning, our beloved children , parents , grandparents wife's just like us, are simply a meaningless accident of blind chance
Heck guys let us run and eat and sleep and do exactly what we like for tomorrow we die
Please, please, please learn more about the evolution of life of earth, and of the formation of the universe, before you make comments about these topics.
Lets go back and debate the eye and its origin during the late Cambrian epoch
Lets use as an analogy the history and development of the motorcar. An alien made out of a metallic compound arrives from a very different world than ours, in the late 1890 and takes a primitive prototype car to its home world to dissect. The tiny engine sputters, blows out smoke and breaks down all the time. Ten years later (an enormous time span for the alien)the alien comes back and finds the cars are a little better, due to some process of evolution.Life for them can only exist in a metallic chain helix, and biological carbon bases life is considered as non- conscious, driven by instinctThen the alien continues to return to earth on ten year cycles and each times find this strange self propelled metallic life form more advanced. Evolution is at work here, evolution is nudging this species in a direction of greater efficiencyOf course it is silly to any thinking mind in the alien culture. To think these changes over the huge time scales are anything but an evolutionary process. And to suggestion that some kind of an intelligence was behind the evolution of the animal called car, is blasted out of their scientific order
I happen to know a great deal about physics, science, astronomy and evolution so your suggestion that I must learn about them is meaningless to me
Why do you require something to have an 'aim'?Why should it? You may as well say that an apple 'wants' to fall to Earth. 'Aim' is an unnecessary concept and only used as a short cut in accounting for things which have already happened.
Evolution doesn't have any aim, "except survival". It tries stuff to boost survival. If that works, great, if not, it tries other stuff.
Evolution doesn't have any aim, except survival. It tries stuff to boost survival. If that works, great, if not, it tries other stuff
We now know that at least one part of this "sentance is a lie"
I will not tolerate that type of comment by anyone especially from a person who ""man you can not even spell correctly""The little story about the evolution of the motor vehicle was a joke man a joke!!Alan
Fair enough. I apologise for my spelling, (I'm guessing it's sentance you're referring to? Should it have been sentence? - actually spelled correctly, merely the wrong word). I also apologise for accusing you of lying.I'm glad it was a joke, sadly, it's often difficult to communicate subtleties like sarcasm in plain text. I still think that your comments about irreducible complexity and "blind chance" expose a lack of understanding about evolution.