Evolution, Science & Religion (Evolution)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, June 17, 2012, 21:27 (4540 days ago) @ romansh
edited by unknown, Sunday, June 17, 2012, 21:34

Back it up with evidence. I've got reams of literature and research showing how badly we have messed up ourselves, our planet, our psychology, heck, even space. Show me where materialism's big success is. Even the things that we call successes are failures. Computers, for all their wonders are toxic both to our health and to our environment. Our food has become poisonous to us, even if we can feed the world. Our governments are utter failures. Our economy is in utter chaos and on the verge of collapse(and beyond in some places). So, please enlighten me as to how the materialistic world view has been 'functional' as I defined it to DHW. (This is a serious request, by the way. I am not being snarky.)-**edit**-And so there is no ambiguity and to give you a fair shake, I am defining functional as:-Something that does not cause dysfunction with in the overall system. -
In other words, you can use examples that are destructive, as long as that destruction does not cause dysfunction or imbalance within the system. For example, a volcano is very destructive, but from its destruction it creates new land and provides nourishment that aid in the continuation of life without negatively affecting the balance of nature in a manner that nature does not already have a corrective function in place for. The same could be said for any natural disaster. (I do not view human death as a result of natural disasters as dysfunction. If they ignore the warnings and die, that is tantamount to suicide in my book.)

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.