Another "New" View of Creation

Wow! Even though I never saw the young man at all I'm inspired by my own use of "Wow" just now. You've just defined intelligence as having an inability to not fall into a hole. Blind adherence to environment is not exactly one of the better definitions of intelligence. A really intelligent lamb would have the good sense to be a wolf every once in a while. As some of the personal biases likely include things like reason I'm thinking you should.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

For me chocolate ice cream is white and flavored with vanilla.For me the speed of a car is measured in calcium acetate.For me yellow is the tensile strength of oxygen.For me Rasputin is a Bolivian folk dance.How is one supposed to have meaning if one can define anything as it pleases them to do?

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

This only applies if the engine was built with intention. If the log volume of a bacterium is given as 0, people have a log volume of 13 and the observable universe has a log volume of 93. Whose existence are you calling tiny, little? You're pretty much the same size as they are. Only those who give it little thought. Why would anyone give much credence to those who give little thought to what they believe? Firstly, It's not evolution that can't explain it, it's you.Secondly, that you don't know everything gives you reason to believe that there is something else that does? Does your inability to jump over the moon give you reason to believe something else can? Generally, is your inability to do something evidence that it can be done? Why would that upset anyone? Some religious types might care if you didn't believe God did it, but most folks could care less what you think did it. It's enjoyable to dicker it out for folks who like to dicker things out. But I don't think you'll find many folks put a lot of emotional investment into what you're thinking. Ever hear of the Theory of Evolution. Ya' see, back in Eighteen Hunnert and Fiddy-nine an Englishman name o' Charles Darwin wrote a book detailing his reckonings of the wonders he'd seen on his voyages of the Southern Seas aboard the Beagle. No it doesn't. Evolution could care even less about how you think things should be done then folks care about what you think God has been doing.You're just full of misconceptions. Could be you need to ask more and tell less.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

It goes without saying that this is not the first time it has been captured on film.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

Not society, individuals. The Borg aren't here yet.My acceptance of the possibility of a more intelligent form of life existing elsewhere in the Universe is a whole 'nother matter then believing in a specific intelligence. Life exists here. There is nothing about it that appears to constrain it to here. The rest of the Universe appears to be like here. Therefore, for it to be thought that life, and by extension intelligence, is unique to 10^-90% of the Universe would be kind of silly. On the other hand, to believe that a supermind for which there is no evidence created the Universe to keep me as a pet is kind of silly. A contradiction doesn't exist because the two cases a completely dissimilar. (Secretly, I was referring to Dr. Adequate.) I don't believe in an alien intelligence. I understand the potential for an alien intelligence is probable enough that to dismiss it is silly. It is not faith because I don't believe in a specific entity or event.I come home to find my door has been broken down. For me to believe that I have had an intruder is reasonable. For me to believe it was Miley Cyrus rummaging through my underwear drawer is silly. If I can see, touch, smell or taste Miley I'll give you a hundred dollars*. This is currently being answered on more appropriate threads. I'll see if I can find one and give you a holler.AbE: *That rings a lot creepier in the reading of it than in the writing of it.Edited by lyx2no, : x

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.