Unisaw wrote:a load of crap
Religion and god are NOT constructs of barbarians to maintain social order, to explain that which they could not fathom and rule over others. They are constructs PRECISELY because we give events meaning and intent and have - over time - THEN evolved into ways to explain things we cannot fathom and rule over others ONLY because of our own vanity and greed.
"All of our crops died."
"Therefore something wanted our crops to die."
"Therefore all of us should do what we think something wants or our crops will continue to die."
or
"There is thunder in the sky and water is falling on us to make us cold and wet."
"Therefore something in the sky is angry at us in particular."
It's a bullshit argument.
Like I said, giving meaning/purpose/intent to things that don't have meaning/purpose/intent is a path to close-mindedness and creates eons of second-guessing as to what our invented deities want....particularly what their "plans" are.
Life has no meaning and no intent. Life is a natural process of 15 billion years of hydrogen and gravity interacting. Hydrogen was compressed into stars, which used fusion to create heavier elements. Supernovas then created even heavier elements. Eventually, organic compounds (those heavier elements) had conditions which created life and amino acids. As to what sparked life there have indeed been experiments that prove that amino acids - the building blocks of DNA - are the product of organic compounds being wet, dried out and zapped with electricity - and repeating the process - over and over again. So, in essence, life in our universe was inevitable due to natural processes.
What was also inevitable was complex life that could contemplate the "meaning" of it all.
While you're correct in saying that life is not an accident, you fail to understand that life is no more an accident than the formation of a star. It was simply a matter of time. But there is no "plan" and no "planner." That's like saying that God created stars simply to keep us warm.
One poignant example of "intent" is when a pilot saved people during an airline crash in Toronto several years back. All the news reporters were calling it a "miracle". Then Jon Stewart from The Daily Show pointed out that it was no miracle because God had FULLY INTENDED to crash that plane, but the pilot stopped everyone from dying. So where's the "meaning" or "intent" in that event? Was it God's intent to crash the plane? Was it God's intent to give the pilot the skills to NOT crash the plane? Was it God's intent to give engineers the know-how and foresight to add a run-off portion to the runway? Was it God's plan to give the news reporters something interesting to report that day? Was it because God hates fags? You could go in circles for eternity trying to figure the meaning or intent of the event and in the end you'd still be no better off because of it.
We simply give life meaning and intent because we anthropomorphize everything we see and experience. Sitting there and asking "Why?" to completely natural or random events is the dumbest thing one could spend their limited time doing.
In terms of purpose, life indeed does try to procreate itself but that is not something that anyone wakes up in the morning and says they're going to do. You can joke that everyone wakes up with the intent of getting laid, but nobody that I know wakes up each day with the intent of actually making a baby. We are simply compelled to do it and - in that - there is no meaning or intent...it's just the way life is.
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