[ExI] Worshiping that Divine Blowhard.
John K Clark
jonkc at bellsouth.net
Mon Mar 30 16:08:10 UTC 2009
Me:
>> the fundamentalists can sense the truth,
>>they know that a more hideously cruel method
>>of developing higher life forms can not be imagined.
"Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
> There you are dead wrong. I can easily imagine a far,
> far more cruel world. What if every amoeba, every plant,
> and every animal had the capacity to suffer as much as we do?
Well, perhaps they do suffer as much as we do. Who knows?
I should amend my remark to say that I cannot imagine any objectively
defined scheme to develop complex life forms that is more cruel than
random mutation and natural selection.
John K Clark
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