You wrote:
Okay. But would you also hold to that if you steadfastly believed there was no creator being? None whatever?
I think I would, because of the physcial evidence. However, believing in a creator makes it a whole lot easier because why would an intelligence want total unpredictability? Believing in an omnipotent creator makes it even easier, because if true randomness existed then He would not know what is going to happen which makes Him potent rather than omnipotent.
You wrote:
My point is that a "golden rule gene" wouldn't propagate. Selfishness is the rule.
Hmm, I really am not making my argument clear. My position is that having the golden rule gene (or whatever it is) is a requirement for propogation of a species, by my previous argument (again it's below). Without it, the species soon dwindles to one individual and dies out. The human race clearly has, not yet at least, died out. What is wrong with my previous argument? :
Two populations of proto-humans, separate from each other in their own ecological enclave- Population "A" is very agressive, always kills and takes what it can
- Population "B" has the Golden Rule gene (or behaviour), it has fear of reprisal if it takes what it can always
- Population "A" quickly kills itself off, only one is left, the strongest one (these are the guys you believe natural selection predicts humans would be)
- Population "B" breeds and breeds and eventually takes over the world (these are the guys I believe natural selection predicts humans would be)
I've been listening to Pete Murphy's Babyshambles music, and while it's ok acoustically and it's nice and ballady I cannot see what all the fuss is about, the lyrics aren't great, this is the title track of the band as an example:
Babyshambles
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
maybe maybe maybe now we're on the way to war
Maybe maybe maybe you'll be running for the door
Maybe maybe maybe you'll be screaming out for more
Daisys got the tickets and a dirty nose
No one wants to help because everybody knows
Over Babyshambles good friends will come to blows
And the NME will have a touch at the shows
You don't need no one
You don't need no one who feels the same old way
Oh it's a shame, it was just getting comfy
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
Arabs on the beach,and lovers on the floor
Maybe maybe maybe now we're all going to war
Maybe maybe maybe they'll be running for the door
Half time Pats boys will score
The first news was there's Americans on the shore
Arabs on the beach, lovers on the floor
Maybe maybe maybe we are all going to war
Maybe maybe maybe...
Hmm, nothing special there. Is he in the news or something?
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