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Author Topic:   Were Psychoactive Plants Designed for a Purpose or Just random evolution at work?
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Message 3 of 19 (450854)
01-24-2008 11:34 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Kod
01-24-2008 1:41 AM


I see this as a problem for the advocates of Intelligent Design, because wouldn't God or a Designer, pick compounds that would have no effect on the mind or body? Unless there was a purpose for them being here in the first place?
I'm no IDist but I think the standard (non-)answer is that you have no way of knowing what the designer's plans include and to speculate on what they should or should not have designed is out of our scope of knowledge.
Pretty much: "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
As you said though, this actually means that the psychoactives, aka entheogens, do have a purpose.
So, what is the problem with psychoactive chemicals being intellegently designed for their purpose? (In the sense that them having a purpose is the problem)
I mean, sure, that would make arguing for their decriminialization a lot easier, but who wants them criminalized anyways? (if that's the direction you're going)
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : multiple inconsequencial changes

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