mhsillen said:
dharh said:
Gonna try to not get drawn into the debate about the 'spark of life' argument, however, genetic change over time is inevitable, good or bad. It is literally inbuilt into how life functions. Mutations, are random change, most of them bad indeed, some of them good.
Ok, so i'll say only one thing about the spark of life thing. Life is merely a very complex set of chemical reactions, in which these reactions are dictated/run by DNA. The simplest organism on the planet is not that far removed the a crap load of random chemical reactions meshed together. Given that, its not necessarily impossible that such 'soups' have been or even now can be found on the earth.
Granted, such supposition not evidence and not much better than claims of god. The problem only arrises in the god argument, when lots of completely unfounded claims are added to the question of whether god or gods do or do not exist.
Darwins central theme is indeed believed by modern scientists. That being change over time. All the rest can be easily discarded as a man at the forfront of a fields not yet mature or even invented yet. That being genetics and biodiversity.
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I don't know what is true but I know at the age of 51 in my heart I want to believe that death leads to something better. Not a worm infested corpse then dirt.
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Don't mistake me. I want more than to end up being a worms lunch, even though there is a certain beauty to the fact that we come from the earth and the stars and will eventually go back into the earth and the stars.
But wishes and wants don't make it so. I dunno the truth of god or gods, but I cannot fathom most peoples beliefs. At best, it seems to me, that god has unleashed existence upon us to do as we see fit, rightly and wrongly, to share the fact that existence is far better than non-existence, and does not give a fig about all this religious stuff. My heart tells me that stuff only matters if _you_ need it to matter.
