Programming Note: Discovery Channel:: Alien Planet

Discovery Channel ^ | 05/14/05

[Quix]

blamblam:

Qx: Perhaps it was something along the line that there is no right or wrong. There is no God.

I sure would like to see the trail of "logic" that leads you to think such a bizarre thing. No mention of gods, positive or negative, was made.

Or perhaps you think God is so limitted that he created this entire universe, but only allowed the birth and evolution of life to occur once?

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Elementary my dear Watson . . . (you evidently haven't read my FR homepage).

1) The emphasis was repeatedly on CHANCE plus time yielding all that was fancifully seen. No other forces or powers were mentioned or hinted at.

2) There SEEMED to be virtually a stark emphasis on the ruthlessness in life and death terms of CHANCE plus CHANCE and time. Individual creatures and probes ceased to exist in a fairly consistent-with-the-values arbitrary ruthlessness. There was no hint of enhanced survival based on anything remotely close to altruism or any other such.

3) There was really no hint of anything remotely close to ABSOLUTE GOOD or ABSOLUTE EVIL. Life and death either were or they were not--with all the meaningfulness of a hurricane flipping coins on an abandoned street--say in Dachau.

4) There was no hint of any overriding infinate power, force, supervisor, experimentor, God. All was the mind numbing inexorableness of survival of the most momentarily powerful regardless of virtually everything else.

Perhaps you weren't fully awake when yo watched it. Or maybe the creativity of the fanciful creatures lulled you into blind gah gah cheerleading.

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Anyone who knows me well knows I do NOT believe that God merely created critters only on this globe. You could have also read that from my FR homepage.

Perhaps you enjoy the same exercise program my Mother has used most of her life--jumping to conclusion and seizing on them as absolute fact.

You might consider a change in that, if so.

[orionblamblam]

> The emphasis was repeatedly on CHANCE plus time yielding all

Just like on Earth.

> There SEEMED to be virtually a stark emphasis on the ruthlessness in life and death terms of CHANCE plus CHANCE and time. Individual creatures and probes ceased to exist in a fairly consistent-with-the-values arbitrary ruthlessness.

Just like on Earth. Piss off a momma bear and see what happens.

> There was no hint of enhanced survival based on anything remotely close to altruism or any other such.

Except, of course, for the intelligent floating critters at the end who demonstrated a primitive form of curious altruism (throughout the show, I might add, repeatedly saving the probes - until the probes did somethign apparently threatening.

Again, just like on Earth.

> There was really no hint of anything remotely close to ABSOLUTE GOOD or ABSOLUTE EVIL.

Just like on Earth. Get in the way of a hungry Great White and see what happens.

> There was no hint of any overriding infinate power, force, supervisor, experimentor, God.

Have you *ever* seen a nature documentary?

> Perhaps you weren't fully awake when yo watched it.

I was. You, however, seem to have been watching a different show.

[Quix]

BLAMBLAM:

I was. You, however, seem to have been watching a different show.

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Methinks you are living on a different planet than I am.

AT least, you have very different perceptions . . . . or is it the cognitions . . .

[orionblamblam]

> Methinks you are living on a different planet than I am.


Apparently so. On the planet *I* live on, reasonable people do not see a lack of mention of their faith in a situation where such a mention would be irrelevant as being an *attack* on their faith.

[William Terrell]

It's not discovering a Earth like planet. It's getting there. . .

[Quix]

Don't recall mentioning attack.

Still, pattern recognition is not exactly rocket science.

It can be challenging for some, though.

[Bon mots]

Thanks for the ping!

I live on an earth-like planet :-P