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In reply to the discussion: God Just Plain Messed Up When He Supposedly Designed Us [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)39. I see now that your confusion arises
from wish to debate against ID and to see me as defender of ID. As well as the confusion about excluding sensing and intentionality from what is usually meant by mind or mental processes - and reserve that to only, let me guess, brains and neural systems?
To me that sounds awfully anthropocentric as I have no problems of considering also monocell organisms. mushrooms and plants etc. able of sensing and having intentions - in other words, mental processes. And need I remind that Dawkins attaches attribute usually linked to consciousness to genes (reflecting and projecting apparently the values of technocratic consumerist culture that he is evolutionary product of)?
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I tend to believe the "flaw" is in the nature of man, rather than the biology.
FedUpWithIt All
Apr 2012
#2
If our biology was better, a lot of flaws "in the nature of man" wouldn't matter
Silent3
Apr 2012
#8
God didn't screw up, the human race screwd up, on their own. Not fair to point fingers.
crunch60
Apr 2012
#3
Something in a screwed up DNA. Parents pass on to their children many anomalies. Humans
crunch60
Apr 2012
#24
So tell me, just how do you know what childhood diseases were around a million years ago?
crunch60
Apr 2012
#29
That's a good argument if one believes that god actually saves or heals the sick.
cbayer
Apr 2012
#49
The process of evolution is mindless, it doesn't care about all the wrong turns...
Silent3
Apr 2012
#10