Nick_A wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 11:48 pm
Sculptor1 wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 5:40 pm
Nick_A wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 4:48 pm
Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 10:25 am
It's an old, old pre-evolution fallacy: the idea that since we live in an environment to which we are well suited, somebody must have made that environment just for us to be put in. As I said, it seems at least possible (though it's obviously impossible to tell for sure) that there are countless other living things spread throughout the universe in countless other environments who, understandably enough, fall for the same fallacy. It seems to me a deeply hubristic fallacy, based on our longing to be special, and our resistance to the continuous process of being pushed by evidence further and further from the centre of the universe where we placed ourselves.
Perhaps the universe isn't here to serve us but we exist to serve the universe.
The universe has no need of our help. We (infact all life) shall come and disappear into nothing ness and the universe shall abide as if nothing had happened.
The universe makes perfect sense we are yet to comprehend. Leonardo Da Vinci's famous drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the "Vitruvian Man," illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection between the human form and the universe. Sacred geometry reveals the logic of our universe and how it isn't a random accidental creation.
Pure human hybris. Who the hell does "MANKIND" think he is?
We are a speck on a piece of dust on the back of a bacteria, on the back of a flea, on the back of an elephant, and the universe is the continent of Africa.
Take a look at Youtube and type in "How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think". They come back and say we can serve the universe.
Universal laws are a conscious creation and cannot occur mechanically. It is Man's potential to consciously evolve to understand their meaning.
Nah. Just another anthrompomorphization; hybris.
You might like this one too. "Universe Size Comparison 3D" on you tube
The human body is a machine designed to transform substances by it bodily processes. Regardless of how we imagine ourselves, our objective purpose is that of a machine.
"Objective purpose" is as close to a contradiction in terms as I have read in a long while without being one. The notion of L'Metrrie's L'Homme Machine was influential and controversial in its time, but has not persisted without reservation. And the point about having a plastic brain is that our purpose is self generated through the experience of our lives, more than any other animal known.
Even if a thing could have an objective purpose, then what the Dickens would that be?
Your finger serves a need of the body or this machine.
The mechanistic nature of your finger can be limited by its mechanical structure, but there is nothing about it that proscribes what you do with it. Whether you are picking your nose or sticking your finger in a leaking dyke it not objective.
You could lose your finger but the body continues to function. Your bodily cells which create your finger are born, live, and die within a day. It is the same with Man in the universe or the body of God.
You have no evidence of god. Can you tell me why men have nipples?
The Machine of the Man animal serves this purpose of transforming substances. It is born, lives, and dies. (dust to dust) Now suppose one of your finger's bodily cells evolves and becomes a brain cell? Its life span and its purpose is different. It no longer serves just an animal purpose but also a conscious purpose associated with the mind of our source.
The purpose of life isn't found in the results but rather in the process. The process of a person's life determines their future.