After all, we are a product of a mindless process.
2007-09-14 19:03:22 · 30 answers · asked by lollipop 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely.
Life simply becomes then what it is and we do what we will and all eventually die anyway. There is no meaning in the atheistic wordlview, only a poor substitution of it trying to use our self-interest.
A life lived completely for self-interest is meaningless.
2007-09-14 19:30:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not at all.
Does eating cake made from a mix taste better than cake made from scratch?
The universe is to big and to full of wonders to even consider it an after thought to earth.
Creationists are like earth centric people of ages past. Their ego had the sun circle the earth. Creation per the Genesis account from a universal perspective is the height of arrogance. There are billions upon billions of galaxies each with billions of planets.
Creationists don’t really grasp the magnitude of it all.
My God is far to big to fit in that tiny book called the Bible.
By evolution terms we are the offspring of the champions of the last generation. Many didn't make it to reproduce.
We are the offspring of a line of champions going back 4.5 billion years. We're quite awesome!
2007-09-14 19:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a mindless process just as Jesus somehow feeding the masses with only so few loafs of bread and so few fishes. God's miracles need no explanation. 100 years ago we knew nothing about evolution, think what we'll know in another 100 years? Maybe we'll discover where the Garden of Eden was? Maybe we'll discover the cross where Christ died for our sins? To deny that the process of THEORY of evolution exists would be absurd. Mr. Darwin may be an instrument of the lord trying to show us that his work is too complicated for us to understand.
2007-09-14 19:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by nemorino147 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why assume that human beings are the most important of all life forms? Just because we can walk and talk and act like idiots doesn't mean we're at the top of the totem pole in the entire universe. I mean, just look at how huge the universe really is! We're barely visible on the universal radar map!
2007-09-14 23:19:36 · answer #4 · answered by Two quarters & a heart down 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all! To me, knowing that various species slowly arose and struggled through millennia of evolution, all the way up the ladder and eventually to this amazingly intelligent organism we call human, is mind-blowingly amazing, when you stop and think of how long it took to get to this point, and how the odds were really against any of this ever happening in the first place.
Creation stories make everything too neat and convenient, and they find refuge in the unprovable and fantastical. Sorry, that's not for me. "God did it" as about as useful as saying "little purple fairies did it," and all either one really, ultimately says is "I don't know, so I'll make up a story about it." That's nice for your creative-writing class, but it doesn't engage or satisfy the intellect.
Give me logic any day. I don't find it devaluing at all.
2007-09-14 19:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Cap'n Zeemboo 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
First you have to believe in the theory of evolution which is a leap of faith as they still have not found our missing link and lots of scientist believe they never will. Why some people are so bent on believing in it is a mystery by itself but it's all they have I guess. It must make it nice and neat to have a little control over an uncontrollable world. Some people believe the world is flat because they think there smarter then everyone else and they know what they know to be scientific truth.
2007-09-14 19:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by YANI S 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How? I dont see it that way at all in fact I see it makes all life so unique and awesome.. I mean to think that our species had to struggle to survive, adapt, change and grow to survive the changes on this planet.. it gives me more respect for humanity at being able to survive. Nature is a cruel mistress, it takes a strong creature to survive her tests.. I see that all life has struggled and failed, rose up again to fight and live.. life is so powerful and determined it can survive anything and adapt to anything.. just look at what our planet has brought forth, everywhere there are creatures that just blow your mind with their uniqueness.. humans not the most or least of life on this planet. To me evolution is not a "mindless" process I mean it is unthinking but it is not bland and it is not ordinary it is magical and incredible in its complexity life itself is all one in its struggle and all life is full of beauty and change.. evolution just opens the wonder of HOW to you.. thats all. It doesnt de-value anything, in fact it gives life greater value in my eyes.. all life.
2007-09-14 19:16:24 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. It took eons for this process to produce human beings, and now (as a result of natural selection) we are on the top of the food chain. Even if the process is "mindless," it has produced us, with our self-awareness, our notions of right and wrong, our ability to empathize with humans and other animals...how are we devalued? I think creationism devalues our collective intelligence.
2007-09-14 19:15:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Modern science will soon prove evolution was used by God to perfect over time His final and most advanced form of life on the planet Earth, the modern human being.
2007-09-14 19:11:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Human beings, with all these words running through our minds, our hearts bursting with feelings, and a world full of color and space and light, ARE the rarest, most amazing creatures in the universe. There is nothing more valuable, nothing rarer in all of time and space, than a human being.
Kids... teenagers with all their smug indifference, are often stuck in the mirror, and usually unable to sympathize and respect otherness... they always seem to miss this factoid.
2007-09-14 19:23:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Evolution, de-valuing me, no, not at all.. I am, we are, etherical beings... We have been living in these human bodies for a while now, but the body is only the vehicle...
Blessed Be... )O(
2007-09-14 19:34:36 · answer #11 · answered by Bunge 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋