Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Invoking The Voyagers Against Id |
Oct 24 2005, 03:04 PM
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Cornell President Rawlings Condemns Intelligent Design
Drawing from sources ranging from Cornell's founders to Voyager space missions, Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III condemned the push to teach intelligent design in public schools Friday. The attack came during the president's State of... http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/435c7762cf891 "The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress." - Bertrand Russell -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Oct 31 2005, 06:23 PM
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I understand that - but the question remains - WHY do they bother. They are around because they DO bother, but WHY do they bother. Why do we bother? They have no choice if they want to survive, but why does a species want to survive
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Oct 31 2005, 06:42 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 31 2005, 06:23 PM) I understand that - but the question remains - WHY do they bother. They are around because they DO bother, but WHY do they bother. Why do we bother? They have no choice if they want to survive, but why does a species want to survive Doug Doug, species have no brain, no consciousness. Only individuals have. And animals just do what they desire to do, eat, hide, have sex. From natural selection they inherited a psychism which make them desire to do what is required to survive and perpetuate the specie. But they can even not envision such a purpose. So they do not bother for this. They just bother for food, shelter and the like, without even imagine what is the stake beyond. The only marvellous thing is that all these individual unawareness make the specie survive, perpetuate and even evolve. |
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