[ExI] Worshiping that Divine Blowhard.

[Lee Corbin]

John Clark writes

>>> the fundamentalists can sense the truth, they know that a more 
>>> hideously cruel method
>>> of developing higher life forms can not be imagined.
 >>
>> 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?

The theory of evolution tells us so. There would be utterly
*no* point whatsoever for plants to develop feelings since
there is in almost all cases absolutely no action that they
could take based upon those feelings.

> 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.

Well, it's hard for me to imagine any alternate objectively
defined scheme to develop complex life forms period!

Lee