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To: 2Wheels; GunRunner; Mrs. Don-o
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, meekness, hate, good, bad, hope, trust, behave, misbehave, compassion, care.....In a world of evolution, of ‘matter’ and chaos, none of these intangibles can exist.

Again - none of THESE....along with morality can exist for those who think they have to see or touch in order to believe in God.

They do exist, although they are chemical reactions in your brain rather than physical manifestations.

Those qualities are NOT chemical reactions in the brain. That's working on the assumption that the chemical reactions CAUSE the emotions or characteristics. It's more likely that those intangibles cause the chemical reactions.

Science cannot even begin to touch so much of human reality. It fails woefully.

155 posted on 11/24/2008 2:22:34 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
It's more likely that those intangibles cause the chemical reactions.

To quote Douglas Adams, "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Why do love, joy, peace, and kindness have to have supernatural qualities?

When I look at a beautiful painting, its nothing but a collection of brush strokes on canvass. Moonlight Sonata is nothing but strings vibrating inside a piano, but its still beautiful. Emotions are nothing but chemical and electrical reactions in your brain, but that doesn't make them any less real or important.

We don't need an omnipotent interdimensional Big Brother ruling over us to make it real, at least I don't anyway.

157 posted on 11/24/2008 3:20:36 PM PST by GunRunner
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