| Puppyroach said: 3. You talk about a "why" as if to find someone who motivated the molecules into existence. There is no need for a motivation for them to exist, in order for them to actually exist. That molecules bind with other molecules out of which we get new properties is only a consequence of the action and reaction between them. These building blocks are then formed into larger structures and, sometimes, into cells. What we call life is just a consequence of actions that, by chance, can recreate themselves. We find this to be amazing (myself included) but it is no more amazing than any non-biological matter, only less likely to happen as far as we know. And we constantly seek answers to how everything is constructed from the start and, as you say, has found smaller and smaller particles. So apparently science is the tool that gives ut the best opportunity to find this answer, wouldn´t you agree? 4. I would never give up on knowledge in the way you describe. When we constantly push our own scientific boundaries forward, we can´t, or rather should never, give up on our own intellectuality and just say "I will never seek knowledge, only put my faith into a sky creature created by humans thousands of years ago". 5. Well, if you can´t recreate it, you don´t have evidence of its existence, simple as that. And this whole notion that somethig that isn´t self-aware can´t create something self-aware. Self-awareness is nothing more than a complex chemical and electrical process in our minds and bodies so ofcourse it can exist without a "higher" intelligence behind it. You try to find a reason behind it, and the reason is simple: because chance and laws of nature has formed it. And I always find it fascinating how so many religious people try to question scientific method by saying "yes, but why do we have molecules" or "well, then who created the universe to begin with", then explains it with a sky god and suddenly turns around and say that we should then not question what created this sky god? So the whole argument revolves around what created what in the world, except for sky god? Well, that´s very convenient then :). |
Cognitive dissonance has always confused me...
