Aug 17, 2005

creation vs evolution (another view :))

A life with no purpose from hindu

"We lose far more than that. Darwinian evolution tells us that we are incipient compost: assemblages of complex molecules that - for no greater purpose than to secure sources of energy against competing claims - have developed the ability to speculate. After a few score years, the molecules disaggregate and return whence they came. Period.
As a gardener and ecologist, I find this oddly comforting. I like the idea of literal reincarnation: that the molecules of which I am composed will, once I have rotted, be incorporated into other organisms. Bits of me will be pushing through the growing tips of trees, will creep over them as caterpillars, will hunt those caterpillars as birds. When I die, I'd like to be buried in a fashion that ensures that no part of me is wasted. Then I can claim to have been of some use after all. "

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"It seems to me that we are the happy ones. We, alone among organisms, who perceive eternity, and know that the world will carry on without us."

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