N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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| Quote | | We have free-will to choose for ourselves with brains designed for reasoning with facts. |
More assertions without evidence. You haven't presented any evidence that brains are designed, nor that the most primitive brains reason with facts rather than simply coordinating evolved, genetically hard-wired, responses to specific stimuli. Free will does not have a hyphen, and is another assertion here, albeit one that I agree with.
| Quote | | Much has to do with what gives us purpose that lives on in future generations, or not, which in the theory is described in scientific detail that gets into the salmon and alligators. |
And you continue to use really bad examples for your claims: most salmon die on spawning; male alligators happily eat baby alligators; and while we can find purposes that extend to future generations, most organisms have no such capability. Lineages that fail to reproduce necessarily end, so every lineage that exists is an unbroken chain of successful reproductions - there isn't anything inherently forward-looking or purposeful in that. It can simply be the result of a contingent history.
| Quote | | but at least they have the true/false level of detail 100% right. |
What? Whatever you mean, you haven't presented any evidence that they've got anything right at all.
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