Lam writes:
...without some kind of real competition, we're not going to evolve far beyond this point.
Is that all that you have to say??
That the human animal is incapable of solving its(our) own problems through some sort of evolution? Dawkins states that memes are ideas and thought concepts...why can't we evolve through conscious effort? The snake was a metaphorical liar...(ye shall be as gods) yet we can't even be highly evolved humans...we kill each other as much as ever! Logic dictates that population increase is exceeding natural resource allotments...
Omnivorous, to HangDawg writes:
from my perspective as an graying no-longer-so political activist, I recall that youth carries its own sense of urgency and imminence, the sense that things can't go on like this, that things are coming to a head. We see the world on the scale of our individual lives, but history works its most profound changes on a larger canvas.
You may in some sense be right, but you would be the first in a long, long line of folks who felt the same way and turned out to be wrong.
The Left Behind scenarios are not gonna happen because, IMHO, nobody has ever been able to write a book about what God is gonna do before He actually does it! (Only a staunch Biblical Literalist would beg to differ! The Bible=The Truth because my Ego has fused with God! Same Absolutist mentality as before the Enlightenment!)
From a logical perspective, humans WILL attempt to fix the problem by attempting to eliminate all forms of fundamentalism and allowing human diversity and rights of freethought to ascend into the penultimate philosophical belief system.(AntiChrist stands in temple, proclaiming himself to be God=humans in their own "temple"(the Body) proclaiming human wisdom as the main P.C. Theology!) I am enough of a literalist in regards to human nature to foresee another World War, as well...(unfortunately) There are some unforseen variables, however. Communication has been linking the minds of the world together as never before!
The Internet is a modern day Tower of Babel...rational minds know that modern warfare is as ridiculous as two guys with a hand grenade stuck in a jail cell together! Terrorism is the little mans weapon against the monied aristrocracy.
In a non-religious sense, I think that we all should learn to know God and to trust Him.
Its OK to be atheist, however,as long as you are honest with yourself about why you reject God in favor of human wisdom!
This message has been edited by Phat, 12-03-2005 07:55 AM