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Author Topic:   A case for Natural Design
1.61803
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Message 48 of 70 (228841)
08-02-2005 12:25 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Parasomnium
07-27-2005 5:04 AM


Hello Parasomnium,
Parasomnium writes:
The unspoken assumption is of course that design can only be the product of intelligence.
I think that assuption is unwarranted.....
Me too.
The bottom line is that energy has become sentient. It is a mystery as to what this energy is or from whence it came and why. All we know is that through the various manifestations of this energy the universe has become concious.
From the singularity that yet defies human comprehension and physical laws the stage has been set to allow, through natural processes, the emergence of : space, time, matter and life on this small obscure little planet. The fundalmental forces that tie all that exist are in perfect harmony.
It can be no other way. If it were so by just the most infintesimal amount every single necessary element to the cascade of life would collapse. And yet through all this seemingly incomprehensable complexity there seems to be a element of sublime simplicity.
Energy, (it seems) wants to exist. It wants to manifest life. It wants to become concious. It wants to become sentient.
All this from a singularity that is by definition supernatural in that it does not adhere to the laws of nature. Who are we to say what
or who is responsible for the emergence of nature.
*edit typos..
This message has been edited by 1.61803, 08-03-2005 11:26 AM

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1.61803
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Message 68 of 70 (232607)
08-12-2005 11:58 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by Parasomnium
08-12-2005 9:31 AM


Re: Bottom line?
Parasomnium writes:
We may be concious, but what difference does that make?
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, Long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way.
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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