newcomplex wrote...
If your an atheist, the natural order has no relevance. It doesn't matter, its just a set of mathematical equations encoded in our DNA. Adherence to natural order is a construction built by society, through our genetic preferences, made to help pass along our DNA.
Your not an Atheist, your god is evolution. Evolution has no will, it has no design, it has no purpose. Blindly following something that is insentient, imperfect, and random is as illogical as following a book some guy wrote. Evolution is a law to be manipulated, not followed.
To reject a god is to reject external meaning, unless said meaning is factually connected to your internal stream of consciousness (or information rather). Nothing has ever qualified for the latter. Internal meaning says a few thing things. To reproduce, to live, to eat, and lastly, to think of your own accord. You follow rules, laws, to ensure your functionality in society. You do these things because hey, why not. Its not like death is any more meaningful then life, or any less meaningful. It simply is, just as life simply is, and you might as well go along with it.
Saying "I'm just going to listen to natural selection" is a ****ing religion. It is the definition of religion. It has no more relavence to your internal state of consciousness, or the only one that matters, because it occurs over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, as the position of celestial bodies. In fact, it has less relavence, at least the moon makes tides, and tides are enjoyable, you can collect crabs and crabs are yummy.
If I'm following a natural law irrelevent to my existence, I might as well divine the position of uranus to tell me what to eat tommorow, both are equally as logical from an athiests perspective.
Your not an atheist, you believe in god, and he isn't even an infallible personification of infinity made into terms humanitity can comprehend, hes just a pattern. A pattern we've noticed 150 years ago. You know what else we noticed 150 years ago? That the universe ended after our solar system, though i guess we correctly identified we werent at the center of it.
Sorry, even christians are better then darwinists.
I'm not saying evolution isn't true. It probably is, more or less. But it isn't some infallible god, as you make it out to be, its a mere pattern which holds no relavence on our daily existence. A mere pattern which we understand very little about.
*laughs* Yes, as an Athiest I know that when my form falters, my consciousness will disappear with it. Everything I have striven for or accomplished will be rendered null and void, from the perspective of nothingness.
But if all you take from that belief is "Oh well...nothing matters anyway, what is the point", I pity you.
Athiest's must decree purpose for themselves. What better purpose is there to latch onto then to follow our genetic instructions? To observe and decide that following the natural order is the best way for our species to survive, improve, and thrive.
I'm well aware that latching onto purpose in this manner is as pathetic as a comfort blanket, but I'm only human
Our base drive is first, to preserve and improve ourself, and second, to preserve and improve our species. Listening to that drive is not a religion.
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