Re: Darwinism causes people to stop loving each other

"stew dean" <stewdean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
nando_ronteltap@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It makes no difference, contemplate the electron ending up on the left
or right slit, supposing it is true it may end up at either one, or a
human being marrying or not, it is essentially spiritual. And no
religionist would deny it.

They have and do deny it. Ask a chritian scientists and you'll be
told, quite clearly, electrons do not make decissions as they do not
have a brain.

It's that incredibly simple. No brain, no decission. No thinking, no
choice. No sun, no sunlight.

How can something descide if it has no way to make a decission?

There are ways of deciding which does not not need a normal brain.

The process of evolution is constantly making decisions about the design of
life but yet it has no brain (or at least, not a system that most people
would label as a brain).

I actually argue however that ID is correct in that there is an
intelligence at work shaping live on earth. That Intelligence however is
just natural selection.

What the brain does for us is actually the same type of process at work, so
if you can label a brain as a device producing intelligent behavior, then I
argue it's also valid to consider a species as a whole as one large
distributed intelligent agent as well. The brain evolves its behavior
though a process of natural selection (conditioning) just like a species
evolves it's behavior (it's genetic makeup) through a process of natural
selection. A human brain just works on a time scale which is far shorter
(years instead of millions of years).

To me, an evolutionist that argues there is no intelligence at work
creating life is just as wrong as a creationist arguing that there is an
intelligent 3rd party responsible for creating life. The evolutionist
needs to understand there is intelligence at work, and the creationist
needs to understand that the process of evolution is the intelligence
behind ID.

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