thordaddy
Posts: 486
Joined: Jan. 2006
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ericmurphy opines,
| Quote | | Except you need an unfertilized egg to get to a fertilized egg. And to get an unfertilized egg, you need to go back to your mom's ovaries before she was even born. And of course, to get to your mom's ovaries, you'd need to go back further, to the fertilized egg that eventually produced your mom's ovaries. Etc. Etc. Etc. It's your classic chicken/egg problem, Thordaddy. Except maybe this time it's a human/egg problem. |
So your life began billions of years ago...? Tell me how random mutations and natural selection decided to choose you?
Next you say,
| Quote | | How is this belief any more arbitrary than your own belief that you are somehow distinct from all the other life on the planet, Thordaddy? Let's face it: your own inevitable death is a lot more important to you than it is to the rest of the universe. By universe standards, your death is way, way less important than even a routine toenail-clipping. |
Yet, this is the whole point. You're existentially agnostic and I am not nor am I for anyone I know. I actually care. Call me selfish if you like.
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