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To: Diamond
we might expect you to be able to offer a scientific account of exactly how accidental concatenations of organic molecules cause wisdom and folly.

Isaac Asimov and Michael Moore

28 posted on 09/18/2008 8:48:30 AM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
Isaac Asimov is as dead as a doornail and Michael Moore is fat. I guess dust and blubber have slightly different atomic makeups, but what sense does it make to praise or blame physical forces for anything, or to assume that matter in motion causing whatever it causes is either wise or foolish? Is the moon foolish or wise for its orbit around the earth? How can an impersonal, physical process of chance/necessity like evolution produce something contrary, or wrong, or foolish to itself?

What are you comparing the universe to in order to say that there's something wrong with it?

Cordially,

29 posted on 09/18/2008 11:35:36 AM PDT by Diamond
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