Evolution and Specialness of Humanity

Annafan writes:Question: if, as a given, 6 billion people are "unique", then what value is left in the "uniqueness"? How could that kind of "uniqueness" be important?

Prophex writes:I feel that uniqueness is very important, it gives one the incentive to do better, or think of something that changes the world, rather than the go with the flow, american dream concepts.

JustinC writes:Two explanations are at our disposal:1.) It evolved just like all of our traits2.) It was created by a magical being.

Charlie writes:...this is getting funny again. I could handle it, my beliefs would most likely give me the advantage. They have thus far in school, and in life.

CP writes:I find Mike's story truly sad. His acceptance of the world outweighed the God that he knew for so long.

CP writes: The physical world should not be trusted, where many people see it as complete and empirical evidence for the ideas of ancients, complete truth, I see it sometimes as fallacy.

NIV writes: John 6:61-7:1-- Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)

Charlie the Prophex writes:Remember a great philosopher Plato, he describes allegorically the phenomenom here at evc and in the world of science. Describes accurately samsara.

Wiki writes:...ignorance of the True Self, Brahman, and thus the soul is led to believe in the reality of the temporal, phenomenal world.
In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self, that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world. This grounds one in desire and the perpetual chain of karma and reincarnation. The state of illusion is known as Maya.

Lams angry young teenager writes: A tragic return to samsara
Praise is given for a return to the worldly trap. It's tragic that this conversion has become so widely enjoyed. It's tragic that a man of God, has retreated to visit the physical, to believe the thoughts of man as truth, and begin to disregard that of God because of popular belief and what he has seen, and observed.

Twindrix writes: Know that the world as many see it, a world of beauty, and of amazement, the visible world, it means nothing, and no truth exists in it. The truth lies in yourself, in the spiritual, and does not manifest itself with calculations of science, and physical observation. Many here say that I am seeing with closed eyes, that I am ignorant of the evidence, that I truly do not see, but it is those who know of this world, know nothing at all. ......
Don't let this world get in the way, it is a constant struggle, a struggle of intellectuals arguing with the believer, telling him that he is flawed because of science, and what is now accepted, the loss of faith signifies defeat. Where biblical scholars give up on creation, noah's ark, I see what is beautiful and true, I see a faith that resonates more loudly than every piece of science ever told. The reality known by the men facing the wall, is the reality that one is limited to when believing whole-heartedly in the realm that is in clear sight. The man who is set free from this realm is ridiculed in the allegory. He is wrong, he is a fool. When the fools are really those who see the wall, who see evidence for evolution, evidences for scientific phenomena, and believe that to be all that exists, and all that matters. They devote themselves to the samsara, the wall, the science.

NIV writes:Mark 8:36-37-- What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Ned writes:If you can't answer just say so. That is the intellectually honest thing to do.

Websters writes:angst \anst\ n [G] : a feeling of anxiety

Prophex writes:I can see the evidence, it's obviously there, within the Fossil Record it is plain as day. As sketchy as it is, the evidence simply sways towards evolution.

Websters writes:pedant-1 : a person who makes a display of his learning 2 : a formal uninspired teacher pedantic \pi-dan-tik\ adj pedantry \ped-en-tre\ n

Lizard Breath writes:When the body breaks, the electro activity ceases and the body ceases to function and decays. There never is a soul. What you perceive as your personna is just a phenomena resulting from electricity flowing in the brain. It's a bi-product of the electro chemical activity and in this paticular enviorment called Planet Earth, this activity can spin up to huge levels allowing the phenomena to morph into complex bi-products like self consciousness.

CSP writes: I am taking a sociology class at Dutchess Community College. Some points relate to this study.