The Nature of this Conflict (Humans)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, January 24, 2010, 11:34 (5416 days ago) @ dhw

dhw writes a romance, edited version: "Once upon a time there were lots of globules of inanimate matter floating around, and they kept bumping into each other, until one day some of them bumped in such a way that they replicated themselves, [and so] become animate, capable of adapting to different environments and XcreatingX [evolving] new bits, after a very long time, they produced brainy beings". This is all true. -However dhw wants us to bear in mind that all this bumping around and evolving just might perhaps, in some far-fetched way, have been guided by the interventions of some brainy interspatial quintessence of a disembodied sky fairy, or something like that, or perhaps something not like that, we shouldn't rule out any possibility just because we have no evidence for it. And of course we don't, in theory, rule out these multitudinous possibilites, but we do, in practice, because we have better things to do with our time than worry about highly improbable unlikelihoods.-dhw offers the thought: "Disbelief in a God does not provide evidence for materialism." True. But lack of evidence for gods does provide evidence for atheism (i.e. not believing in gods). And presence of evidence in everything being made of atoms with mass, does provide evidence for materialism (i.e. believing in chemistry).

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GPJ