[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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